Protecting elephants and conserving natural ecosystems rema… - Richard Leakey

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Protecting elephants and conserving natural ecosystems remain my personal priorities. But I am not so sure this would be so were I ill, hungry, and living in dispair. ...We must somehow find a way to provide for our own species if we are also to preserve others.

Richard Leakey

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About Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist.

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Birth Name: Richard Erskine Frere Leakey

Alternative Names: Richard Erskine Leakey • R. E. F. Leakey • R. Leakey

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