Richard Leakey

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.

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These are some quotes by Kenyan author Richard Leakey Environmentalist, who was born on December 19, 1944.

Quotes by Richard Leakey

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

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The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

Richard Leakey

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Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

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