Background
Strange was born at Market Deeping in Lincolnshire.
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Ian Strange
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He attended school at Wolverhampton, subsequently studying at Wolverhampton College of Art, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and the University of Birmingham. He then served with the Independent Parachute Brigade, following which he studied at the Essex College of Agriculture, also working on farms in the Essex fenlands.
Career
In 1959 Strange accepted a position establishing and managing an experimental mink fur farm in the for the Hudson"s Bay Company. During the 1960s he became involved in conservation activities – promoting the establishment of wildlife reserves on several of the islands and surveying seal populations there. The unviability of fur farming led to Strange’s return to the United Kingdom in 1967, but he returned to the Falklands in 1968 as a tour organiser with Lindblad Travel.
In 1971 he became an honorary advisor to the Falklands Government on wildlife and conservation.
His first book, The, was published in 1972. In the same year Strange was able, with additional sponsorship, to purchase New Island as a reserve and wildlife research centre.
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