Kenyan - Environmentalist | December 19, 1944 -
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Richard Leakey
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We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
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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.
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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.
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
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Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
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We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
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We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
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The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
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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.
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