Richard leakey is a kenyan palaeoanthropologist, conservationist and public figure. Richard leakey's (pictured) two quite diverse missions centred on his search for the origins of mankind and his determination to preserve . Paleoanthropologist and conservationist richard leakey died yesterday (january 2), kenyan president uhuru kenyatta announced. Richard leakey, a kenyan conservationist and paleoanthropologist who spearheaded campaigns against the ivory trade to save the dwindling . Richard leakey, who died on january 2nd aged 77, was the heir on both sides to a dynasty of palaeontologists who helped prove that africa . Get rampant poaching under control in Kenya, famed from www.thestar.com National geographic explorer richard leakey, the paleoanthropologist and conservationist who built upon his legendary family's discoveries . R