Alain Rousset, a Socialist lawmaker who has backed a draft law seeking to help the veterans, estimates that about 80,000 are left worldwide.
It is estimated that there are 3,200 tigers left worldwide – 95% fewer than a century ago – and the booming wildlife trade is the biggest threat to their survival.
Back in 1986, the late Gianni Agnelli, who spent over 30 years at the head of the Fiat Group, forecast that by the end of the 1990s there would be only half a dozen big carmakers left worldwide.
With only an estimated 7100 free-ranging adult and adolescent individuals left worldwide, the cheetah's (Acinonyx jubatus) survival requires the scaling up of conservation action.
With respect to mercury cell chlor-alkali chemicals, there are approximately 50 manufacturing plants left worldwide.
Equally great emphasis has been placed on the reduction of food waste, across all developed countries, as a means of ending the global food crisis that leaves millions worldwide starving and impoverished.
Rhodiola L. (Crassulaceae) comprises 90 species of perennial herbaceous plants with succulent leaves distributed worldwide (Fu and Ohba, 2001).
But the Fed might also taper too slowly, leaving investors worldwide too reliant on cheap money and leading to more of those "Bernanke bubbles".
The BBC's management saw it as a peripheral medium that would not be part of the BBC's core operations, but which, rather like magazines, could be left to Worldwide to make a little money from.Worldwide, realising that it lacked the expertise to do the job alone, negotiated a joint venture with ICL, a computer company.
And while Julian Assange's WikiLeaks also left a worldwide mark this year, I would argue that the site, with its emphasis on openness and transparency in government, falls under the umbrella of Internet too, so a win for the Internet would kill two birds with one prize.
