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...years, the die-offs in this veritable Auschwitz of earth's largest quadrupeds have been recorded by Peter Beard, an energetic and tough-minded American photographer who spends part of each year on his property near Nairobi. The results of his work are on view through Jan. 22 at Manhattan's International Center of Photography...
...story was researched by Senior Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and written by Associate Editor William E. Smith, who was Nairobi bureau chief in the 1960s and has written many of our Africa stories during the past eight years. "When I arrived in Africa, there were already hints of this drama," recalls Smith. "The tension has been building there for a long time, and it is heightened by the fact that all the principals involved are so passionately and irrevocably committed." That passion and commitment have made South Africa one of the most important political stories in the world today...
...African Prehistory. He is determined to help build both into major centers for the study of man's origins. A citizen of Kenya, he has always made a point of taking students from Nairobi University on his expeditions ("Nobody ever used local students before, but we cannot exclude our own people...
These days Leakey spends most of his time in Nairobi, mired in administrative work at the museum. But he still longs to be out in the field and at every opportunity loads his second wife, the former Meave Epps (his first marriage ended in divorce), and their two small children into his four-seat Cessna and flies out for a short stay at Koobi Fora...