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
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.
The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
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.
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.