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Richard Leakey

Type: Person

Name: Richard Leakey

Title: Chairman of National Museums of Kenya (Kenya)

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Rutgers University

Compromise on Serengeti road?: build an elevated highway

Famed anthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey has proposed a possible solution to the hugely controversial Serengeti road: build an elevated highway. Leakey made the remarks during a conference at Rutgers University on May 14th, as reported ... [Published Mongabay.com - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Richard Leakey, Rutgers University, Environment

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Do blood tests have different results as to what is normal depending upon race? (Video)

What are the medical implications of people with varying degrees of African ancestry, since when people take blood tests, the results differ between African and European/Asian peoples as to what medicine considers normal values on blood test results? ... [Published Examiner.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Richard Leakey, Fossil, African-Americans, Evolution

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

'Scatter, Adapt and Remember’: How to avoid extinction

Annalee Newitz isn’t a top scientist with the clout to carry the burden of her book’s title. Still, she has a doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley and is co-founder of 109, a Gawker-owned science-fiction blog named by the ... [Published Buffalo News - May 19 2013]

Entities: Annalee Newitz, Richard Leakey, Elizabeth Kolbert, Mass Extinction

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poaching

Newark, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment. But with poaching raging out of control in several areas of the world, that may be cha ... [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: poaching, Richard Leakey, Crime, Criminologist

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Kenya African National Union (Kenya)

Why This Obsession With Technocrats?

As I watched the parliamentary committee vetting the nominees for Cabinet slots about a week ago, I wondered how many younger Kenyans knew that this is actually the third time that an attempt to bring technocrats into government is being made. And that ... [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 16 2013]

Entities: Richard Leakey, Kenya African National Union (Kenya), Titus Naikuni, Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd.

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Serengti Highway Compromise Proposed by Famed Scientist

Wildebeest migration across the Serengeti.CREDIT: WCS.Newark, N.J. — Building an elevated highway across the Serengeti may not sound like the most feasible or wise idea. But that's exactly what Kenyan scientist and conservationist Richard Leakey proposed ... [Published LiveScience.com - May 15 2013]

Entities: Richard Leakey, poaching, Wildebeest, Criminologist, Kenya

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Prehistoric Moms Had Their Hands Full: Photos

Mother's Day as a holiday is only 105 years old, but moms on the direct and extended human family tree date back to at least 58 million years ago.That's when Plesiadapis, the oldest known primate-like mammal, lived. Infants were fully formed but helpless, ... [Published Discovery Health - May 10 2013]

Entities: Wikimedia Commons, Neanderthal, Species, Homo Habilis

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Wildlife Crime Symposium

What:Rutgers School of Criminal Justice will sponsor the to mark the inauguration of its Center for Conservation Criminology. The symposium will focus on issues concerning poaching of elephants, parrots and leopards, illegal commercial fishing, and law ... [Published EurekAlert! - May 10 2013]

Entities: Richard Leakey, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Crime, poaching

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

Lake Turkana May Dry Up in Our Lifetime

New report say it's a matter of when and not if the lake, the largest desert lake in the world, is going to disappear if the ongoing Gibe III dam project is not haltedIt is regarded by many anthropologists as the cradle of humankind, thanks to the abundance ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 03 2013]

Entities: Richard Leakey, World Bank Group, Kenya, Construction

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Opinion: Governor should allow Nairobi residents to stink and rot in peace

East Africa maybe the cradle of mankind, but it is a fallacy to continue perpetrating the myth that ancient man originated from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania or Turkana in Kenya.With tremendous respect to world famous archeologist Dr Richard Leakey, one need ... [Published East African Standard - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Nairobi, Richard Leakey, Neon, Dazzle, Donkey

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 2 reports

Mary Leakey Doodle Hits The Rest Of The World

Get the WebProNews Newsletter:Yesterday, as the day had already changed in some parts of the world, Google began showing a doodle honoring the 100th birthday of archaeologist Mary Leakey. Now that it is February 6th in the rest of the world, other countries ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Mary Leakey, Doodle, Rest

Quotes

Too often Westerners ignore the underlying poverty and assume the people committing these crimes have completely different values, Leakey said. "i think we need to change the idea that if you went to cambridge or rutgers, you have a different value set."

Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poaching [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]

...to see animals migrating by underneath, and signal Africa's commitment to wildlife," Leakey said during the keynote speech he gave at the meeting. "if i can drive over 30 miles of elevated highways in new jersey, why not in the serengeti?"

Serengti Highway Compromise Proposed by Famed Scientist [Published LiveScience.com - May 15 2013]

"this is a global disaster in waiting. lake turkana is going to dry up" says leading archaeologist Richard Leakey. "It is a matter of when and not if Lake Turkana is going to dry up."

Lake Turkana May Dry Up in Our Lifetime [Published AllAfrica.com - May 03 2013]

...This is equally unrealistic. Anthropologist Richard Leakey, Kenya's director of wildlife management, warned: "unless we can make wildlife conservation profitable for all peoples, we cannot save our elephants for the future."

DOUG BANDOW: Save elephants by harvesting ivory [Published Indiana Gazette - Mar 11 2013]

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Compromise on Serengeti road?: build an elevate... [Published Mongabay.com - 19 hours ago]
Do blood tests have different results as to wha... [Published Examiner.com - 20 hours ago]
'Scatter, Adapt and Remember’: How to avoid ext... [Published Buffalo News - May 19 2013]
Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poa... [Published LiveScience.com - May 16 2013]
Why This Obsession With Technocrats? [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 16 2013]
Serengti Highway Compromise Proposed by Famed S... [Published LiveScience.com - May 15 2013]
How Human Evolution Prepared Us To Survive Futu... [Published Gizmodo Australia - May 15 2013]
Prehistoric Moms Had Their Hands Full: Photos [Published Discovery Health - May 10 2013]
Wildlife Crime Symposium [Published EurekAlert! - May 10 2013]
Why Uhuru’s Cabinet Will Not Perform Better Tha... [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 04 2013]
Lake Turkana May Dry Up in Our Lifetime [Published AllAfrica.com - May 03 2013]
Lake Turkana may dry up in our lifetime [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 02 2013]
THIS TIME IT MAY WORK... [Published The Star (Kenya) - Apr 27 2013]
Opinion: Governor should allow Nairobi resident... [Published East African Standard - Apr 23 2013]
DOUG BANDOW: Save elephants by harvesting ivory [Published Indiana Gazette - Mar 11 2013]
Mary Leakey, the ‘the grande dame of archeology... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Feb 06 2013]
Mary Leakey Doodle Hits The Rest Of The World [Published WebProNews - Feb 06 2013]
Mary Leakey Doodle Hits The Rest Of The World [Published WebProNews Feed - Feb 06 2013]
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