origins and wildlife conservation will never be forgotten. dr paula kahumbu is a wildlife conservationist and the ceo of wildlifedirect the charity founded in 2004 by dr richard leakey. iam i am pleased to say she is joining us now. good to have you with us on bbc news. it is a very sad day. i know you have known him for many, many years. how do you remember him? well, richard was a friend first and foremost and then he was my boss much of the time as well. he was somebody who stood for excellence in everything. he had an incredible mind, a mind that could hold many ideas together at the same time. and that meant he worked on his fossil
everything. he had an incredible mind, a mind that could hold many ideas together at the same time. and that meant he worked on his fossil work, as well as wildlife conservation at the same time and he interacted with lots of the world s top scientists on a regular basis. i remember him as somebody who had zero tolerance for corruption. he had a very, very high sense of integrity. he held everyone else to the same standard. and that is really, i think, a lasting memory i will have of him. when he was the head of the national museums of kenya, he was in charge of all of the research that was going on in terms of nature, biodiversity in kenya. in the 1980s, kenya s elephants were being slaughtered to feed the ivory trade in china and japan. richard was one of those people who went and talked to scientists in particularjoyce