Jonathan Leakey

Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey (* November 4, 1940 ) is the first son of Louis and Mary Leakey. He was in October 1960, fossil remains of a 10 - year-old child of a new prehistoric man - kind, which was later baptized by his father on the name Homo habilis. The fossil OH 7 is known by the nickname " Jonny's Child". His younger brother, Richard, is regarded as one of the most important Paläanthropologen the present and is in Kenya known as an environmentalist.

Jonathan Leakey was never professionally active in the field of the study of ancient humans. He operates in Nakuru ( Kenya), the trading company Jonathan Leakey Ltd.. , Among other things, Snake venom sells, which is partly derived from free-living animals, some of animals from a snake farm owned by him. In addition, he supported American animal dealers in the export of live reptiles from Kenya, giving him the reputation of a " snake hunter " brought. Until the ban by the Kenyan government in 1981, he was, according to online publications main exporter of wild-caught a chameleon - type for the U.S. market ( the Chamaeleon jacksonii ).

In an online publication of The East African Standard of 14 July 2004 was critical the talk that Jonathan Leakey thanks to his family connections to Richard Leakey, the former head of the Kenya Wildlife Service, have the sole right to the used as a remedy bark one in the Kikuyu language mweri or muiri said tree of the genus Prunus (Prunus africana) to export - 300 to 400 tonnes per year. Similarly, published in Nairobi online edition of The Daily Nation had on 15 June 2000 reported that Jonathan Leakey, together with the French company Groupe Fournier the exclusive beneficiaries of this also processed into tablets remedy were, while the local people go out empty and the tree to become endangered in its existence. Similarly critical Kenya's Environment Minister Newton Kulundu expressed in June 2004 in New African scandal around the Mweri tree and was quoted as saying: "It is no secret that Jonathan Leakey in the past 20 years, the products of Prunus africana on the European market exported. "