I've got to say I had no idea how well known he was overseas. It was once said that he never made it here until he cracked America. Perhaps that is truer than I ever gave prior credit. Perhaps though, it is more that I just thought he was well known, not 'popular' per se. I'd read or hear people from overseas mocking his accent for example. It's the same accent 20 million of us have, and it used to piss me off to hear people harp on about it. The way he spoke was different, definitely, we might say crikey, but not while watching a funnel web drip venom from it's fangs. Anyway, the point is, people from overseas seemed to be focusing on how he dressed or talked and completely (seemed) to miss what he was actually doing, which was passionately promoting and spreading awareness for the environment and animal protection. He was a driven man. The way he carried on is and was absolutely irrelevant. If it helped someone take a liking to him, then great, but the work he did was just tremendous.