Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometresnorth of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 February 1962
CountryAustralia
Steve Irwin quotes about
I have no problem giving donations, but I like to see my money go to work.
I had to jump off and jump on a plane at the ranger's station airfield, flew straight down and walked off the plane into the awards ceremony,
What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to.
Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.
The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.
I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.
I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.
I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!
Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.
So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.
I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.