Illegal poaching could see these great species disappear from their african heartlands. My guest today is Richard Leakey, chairman of the Kenya Wildlife service. He also happens to be a World Famous Palaeontologist whose life story reads like an implausible movie script. The question is will his fight for africas endangered wildlife have a happy ending . Richard leakey, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You know, there is an adage, a saying which goes like this you should never go back. And yet you have decided to go back, to run and be the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife service so many years after you did thatjob in the late 80s. Why have you gone back . Well, i go by a different philosophy. If you do a job and you do it reasonably well, and it gets messed up, if you can go back and tidy it up again, why not . Imean, get it back to what you wanted. I think wildlife in kenya isnt in very good shape at the moment but i dont think it is Rocket Science to get it right. And when the presiden
Illegal poaching could see these great species disappear from their african heartlands. My guest today is Richard Leakey, chairman of the Kenya Wildlife service. He also happens to be a World Famous Palaeontologist whose life story reads like an implausible movie script. The question is will his fight for africas endangered wildlife have a happy ending . Richard leakey, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You know, there is an adage, a saying which goes like this you should never go back. And yet you have decided to go back, to run and be the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife service so many years after you did thatjob in the late 80s. Why have you gone back . Well, i go by a different philosophy. If you do a job and you do it reasonably well, and it gets messed up, if you can go back and tidy it up again, why not . Imean, get it back to what you wanted. I think wildlife in kenya isnt in very good shape at the moment but i dont think it is Rocket Science to get it right. And when the presiden
of security personnel. sure sounds like kenya isn t capable of hand ling this. one of the problems is going to be the border. if you want to try to denied against somalia coming across the border from somalia token ya and you want to tell me that s easy, look at texas, california and new mexico and trying to keep mexican cartels out. not only is that organization that is al shabaab, well organized, you can presumably bribe the border guard, i don t care how many people you give me. that s virtually impossible. take me inside american intel on this situation if you will. most recently they made to call threatening lone wolf attacks op malls in the united states, on soft tarkts in the united states. that got a lot of headlines. we haven t seen anything come