About Me
Steve Irwin, The Life Story.
Wildlife expert, conservationist, and television show host Steve Irwin was born on February 22, 1962, in Essendon in Victoria, Australia, Son to Lyn and Bob Irwin. Bob was an enthusiast of reptiles and moved his family to Queensland in 1970 to start a small reptile park at Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast.
Practically living in the Zoo, Steve grew up with all kinds of animals, taking part in the animals daily feeding, care and maintenance of them all. Upon his 6th birthday, he recieved present which he had always wanted – his very own scrub python! It was 3.6m (12ft) long. While other kids were happy having cats or dogs as pets, Steve was out in waters catching fish hunting rodents to feed to his crocodiles and snakes, and all sorts of interesting things.
Bob taught his son all that he needed to know about reptiles – even teaching his young son how to jump in the rivers of North Queensland at night to catch crocodiles. This partnership between the two brought an interesting fact to their Zoo. Every crocodile in their zoo, numbering past 100, was either raised in their zoo after being bred, or caught by their bare hands.
Steve followed in his father’s footsteps As he grew older, volunteering his services to the Queensland Governments East Coast Crocodile Management program which saw him spend years living on his own in the mosquito infested creeks, rivers and mangroves of North Queensland catching huge crocodiles single-handed. His record of successful catches was amazing untill the day of his death.
The Australia Zoo became a true family business, flourishing until 1991 when Bob & Lyn retired, turning over management to their son, Steve. Since 1991, Australia Zoo has flourished and grew under Steve’s control. In 1990 television producer John Stainton was filming in the Zoo for a TV commercial. This reunion gave Steve the opportunity to show his assorted animal talents to the world when they both took an attempt and made the first documentary, "The Crocodile Hunter" in 1992.
In June 1992, Steve married Terri Raines from Oregon USA. They met a few months earlier when Terri visited the Zoo when vacationing in Australia. They spent their lives together educating people everywhere to care for all of our world’s wildlife.
This Amazing success of this one program greatly encouraged the two to make more. Over the next 3 years, 10 one hour episodes were produced and put upon television screens all over the world. Steve has now filmed over 70 episodes of "The Crocodile Hunter", 53 episodes of "Croc Files", 43 episodes of “Croc Diaries†and another television series called “The New Breed Vets†released in 2005.
On September 4, 2006, Irwin was working upon a new program, filming at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. While snorkeling near a stingray, he was pierced in the chest by its barb.Irwin died of cardiac arrest shortly after being stung right in the heart. Stunned by the news of his abrupt death, people around the world mourned his passing. Worldwide, people left flowers and notes at the Australia Zoo, which he and his wife ran, taking over for his parents. Others posted messages expressing their grief on the Web.
Steve Irwin made a huge contribution to this world. Although he does not walk the earth today, everything he taught and stood for will last forever in the hearts of his fans, and people who just enjoyed what he did.
i dont think we should only see him in death steve was a good man an would liked to be rememberd for what he did.
