The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. Richard Leakey Read Quote
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. Richard Leakey Read Quote
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. Richard Leakey Read Quote
Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. Richard Leakey Read Quote
I can’t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils. Richard Leakey Read Quote
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. Richard Leakey Read Quote
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. Richard Leakey Read Quote
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. Richard Leakey Read Quote
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. Richard Leakey Read Quote
