Steve Irwin(1962-2006)
- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
Steve Irwin was born in 1962 to parents Lyn and Bob Irwin, who were
animal naturalists. He shared the love for animals all his life,
stemming from being raised at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park.
There, he partook in daily duties of animal feeding and care. He
quickly established himself with the Queenland's government on the
process of the country's Crocodile Relocation Program, in which the
reptiles could be transferred and relocated to proper localties in the
most absolute humane, non-tranquilizing manner. He frequently
implements the non-tranquilizing factor in his televison show The Crocodile Hunter's Croc Files (1999).
Steve married fellow naturalist, Terri Irwin (Baines) in 1992. She
joined him in his adventures and efforts in almost every episode of his
show. They had one daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin, who was born July 24,
1998. He died in September 2006 following an attack by a stingray, off
the Great Barrier Reef.