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• n  English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)

• Leakey
• Richard Leakey
• Richard Erskine Leakey

News & Articles

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• Kenya's elephants may vanish in 10 years, warns prominent naturalist
  Richard Leakey was in Nairobi this week with news that ivory poaching, and illegal sales in Asia, may accelerate overall trend downward.  
  July 27, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor