Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Richard Erskine Frere Leakeyis a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger half-brother of Colin Leakey...
NationalityKenyan
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth19 December 1944
CityNairobi, Kenya
CountryKenya
devote minds secure
Let us devote our minds - the one thing we have more of than other apes - and let's secure their future.
elephants kenya lived problem
Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
elephants tourists tourism
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
kenya migrants impossible
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.