updated Fri. August 23, 2024
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Daily Nation
April 29, 2018
In a foreword to the book, Richard Leakey mentions the “flavour” the novel adds to the “colourful history of Kenya.” The additive he means is the story the writer creates from and around African people to bring “out some of the superstitions, myths and beliefs that were common in the area amongst the peopleÃâà...
Daily Nation
April 29, 2018
Currently, the KWS has no substantive Director-General, and all holders of senior executive positions are in acting capacities while the Board of Trustees composition is to to be reconsituted following expiry of its chairman, Dr Richard Leakey's term two weeks ago. Three other board members' terms alsoÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 21, 2018
Chairman Richard Leakey says that while a railway line should not ideally cut through any park, underdevelopment was a Kenyan reality and KWS could only make the best of the difficult situation in which they found themselves. A total of seven possible routes were considered for phase two of the SGR,Ãâà...
27east.com
April 17, 2018
Ms. Lichtenstein's support for Stony Brook programs has extended outside the arts fields, and outside the country. She has financed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey's research on human evolution at Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, and Indianapolis Prize-winning Patricia Wright's conservation work atÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
April 7, 2018
In recent years, the Paleo Diet, based on the perceived eating habits of prehistoric people, has become wildly popular. However, modern research says this diet is based on an incorrect view of how early humans lived. Paleontologist Dr. Alan Walker of Johns Hopkins University led a comprehensive studyÃâà...
27east.com
April 3, 2018
She also supports scholarships and university programs around the world, including paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey's Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya, and Centre Valbio in Madagascar, where primatologist Patricia Wright is dedicated to conservation research. Ms. Lichtenstein has even visited theÃâà...
Daily Nation
April 1, 2018
Dr Western's appointment to chair the task force “to review policy and laws on direct commercial exploitation of game” comes just weeks before the term of KWS Board of Trustees chairman, Dr Richard Leakey, expires. The appointment has raised questions whether Mr Balala is shopping for Dr Leakey'sÃâà...
The Times
March 25, 2018
In July 1993 Richard Leakey, the great Kenyan environmentalist woke to read his obituary in The Times. As someone who has been involved in Ukip for many, many years, I can sympathise with him. Yesterday, a well-meaning former BBC man approached me at a Boat Race party, “Gawain, admit it, it'sÃâà...
Voice of America
March 13, 2018
Just two days later, dressed in sneakers and khakis, Tillerson appeared relaxed and enjoyed a tour at Kenya Wildlife Service Genetics and Molecular Forensics Laboratory, chatting with experts working at the lab, as well as prominent conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey. Sec of State Tillerson stressed theÃâà...
WTOP
March 10, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — A helicopter crashed into New York City's East River Sunday night and flipped upside down in the water, killing two of the six people aboard and leaving three others in critical condition, officials said. Video taken by a bystander and posted on Twitter shows the red helicopter land hard inÃâà...
University of Delaware Review
December 31, 1999
Fear is not an emotion that paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard Leakey is familiar with. “Nobody's scared me yet,” he said. “And they've all had dismal failure in their attempts to scare me. It's not as dramatic as it seems. When you read about it or hear about it I've lived a life ofÃâà...
Hivisasa
December 31, 1999
Dr. Richard Leakey who was the director and he told the residents that the removal was temporal and would be returned back after it had recovered. Omieri died on 9th July, 1987 at the Nairobi Snake Park. The autopsy revealed that she died of gastro-intestinal tract blockage from a ring of round worms.
