Australian cricket great Shane Warne’s legacy will live on beyond his sporting achievements, with his animal conservation work for the United Nations to be honoured with a new grant. At a state memorial service in Melbourne on Wednesday, Andrea Egan from the UN Development Programme revealed Warne joined its wildlife fund, Lion’s Share, in 2021. Egan announced the Shane Warne conservation grant to memorialise the spin king’s work to protect wildlife and catalyse more action. “His legacy extends beyond the hearts of the people here today,” she told the crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. “It lives on in the people of Sri Lanka promoting sea turtle conservation, in an all-female anti-poaching unit in South Africa, and the team at the Byron Bay hospital, who were supported in the wake of the bushfires. “All this work and more, Shane helped make possible. We are forever grateful for his championship and will …