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| katlyn |
 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:47 pm |
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Stephen Robert Irwin was born Feb. 22, 1962, in Essendon, Victoria, in Australia, where his father worked as a plumber and his mother was a maternity nurse.
His parents were amateur naturalists, and in 1970 they moved to the Queensland community of Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast. They bought four acres to start their park. which opened to the public in 1973.
Mr. Irwin spent much of his youth helping his parents nurse injured birds and raise kangaroos. He was overjoyed on his 6th birthday when his parents bought him his very own 11-foot-long scrub python.
One of his defining early childhood experiences was "jumping" a crocodile in the Australian outback with his father's permission. The father-son team caught with their bare hands or bred nearly all the 150 crocodiles at their park.
After high school, Mr. Irwin joined the government's Crocodile Management Program, a plan to relocate the aquatic reptile when they came into contact with people, and he distinguished himself nationally in the art of crocodile capture.
His work also took him to Australian rainforests, and he became accomplished in studying goannas, a type of lizard.
"Living like a possum, I'd occasionally come down out of the trees for a feed," he wrote in a memoir. "Fortunately God blessed me with orangutan arms. To study arboreal animals, you've got to become one: I could climb anything."
In the early 1990s, he took over his parents' park and headed a cougar conservation effort. He also filmed a 10-hour television documentary about his work called "The Crocodile Hunter." But the producer, John Stainton, was so mesmerized by Mr. Irwin's own amateur video tapes that Stainton persuaded an Australian network to devote an entire series to Mr. Irwin.
The show proved popular in limited syndication, and the Animal Planet channel began airing the program in 1996. It became the channel's most popular offering, won a Daytime Emmy Award for best children's series and led to spin-offs such as "Croc Files."
In 1992, he married an Oregon-born naturalist, Terri Raines, who became his filming and writing partner. She and their two young children, Bindi Sue and Robert, survive, as does Mr. Irwin's father.
Mr. Irwin's insistence on face-to-face meetings with his subjects sometimes brought him trouble from authorities.
While filming in Antarctica in 2004 for a documentary, he was criticized by animals rights groups for allegedly violating an Australian prohibition against human interaction with the wildlife.
"Totally beat up, mate," he told an interviewer. "Like I'm tobogganing over there, the penguin's over there -- what's the big deal? Don't know what they're on about there. Don't understand that one at all."
Nothing came of the controversy, but Mr. Irwin had long spoken out about the need for such proximity to animals.
"The day has come where we can't keep looking at wildlife on a long lens on a tripod, which, historically, nature documentaries have done," Mr. Irwin said. "Then there's this voice of God telling you about the cheetah kill. After 450,000 cheetah kills, it's not entertaining any more."
At 4, he almost lost his nose to his father's sulfar crested cockatoo and was thereafter frightened of parrots. |
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| laro0osy |
| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:57 pm |
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Joined: 22 May 2006
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| i heard this afternoon.. it sucks !! i rly liked him poor steve! and poor family! rip steve :( |
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| Anastassakiss |
| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:30 pm |
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 Whaat ?
I heard the same rumor for almost 2 years ago .
I really like that guy . Even though he's wierd .
Poor Steve and his family .
RIP Steve  |
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| Kathy Bear |
| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:33 pm |
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| This is so sad. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. |
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| Swiss-Jenfan |
| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:37 pm |
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| I heard it from my Sister, and she got a mail from a friend in Australia just an hour when they said he was dead. I coulnd't believe that he actually died, and I still can't. It's so sad! I've met him twice, and the family is just so great...I'm so sorry for all his friends and family and especially for Terri and the kids! I mean, that's just horrible...I hope they're going trough this crisis the best they can..I wish them all the best! |
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| nuska_oO2 |
| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:42 pm |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
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| I am still shocked. I couldn't believe when i first saw it on the net, and i still can't believe now. I just wish that his family can get trough all of this. Like Kathy said, my prayers are with him and his family and friends. |
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