A Vanishing Kind

<p>Wildlife conservation in Australia owes much to the ideas of a controversial mathematics professor whose attention-grabbing actions made him at once famous and widely vilified.John Wamsley overcame childhood disadvantage and trauma to create first a private sanctuary called Warrawong then Earth Sanctuaries Limited the world's first publicly listed company devoted solely to wildlife conservation.His company fell from a great height but its influence has been enormous. This is the story of that enterprise and the man who founded it.</p>