In 1993, his small Cessna plane crashed in the Rift Valley

 In 1993, his small Cessna plane crashed in the Rift Valley

 where he had made his name. He survived but lost both legs. “There were regular threats to me at the time and I lived with armed guards. But I made the decision not to be a dramatist and say: 'They tried to kill me.' I chose to get on with life,” he told the Financial Times.

Leakey was forced out of KWS a year later and began a less successful career in politics. In 1998 Moi appointed him to head Kenya's civil service and fight corruption, which proved impossible, leading to his resignation just two years later.

In 2015, as another elephant poaching crisis gripped Africa, President Kenyatta asked Leakey to again take the helm at KWS, this time as chairman of the board, a position he would hold for three years.

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