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Liceul Teoretic I.C. Drguanu
Lucrare pentru obinerea certificatului de competen lingvistic
- Limba englez -
Profesor coordonator :Hane Angela-Eleonora
Absolvent:Sofonea Sorina
Victoria
- 2008 -
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Table of Contents
Argument ............................................................................................................................. 4Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 51 Early years of life ..............................................................................................................62 Career ................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Rise to fame ............................................................................................................... 72.2 Film ............................................................................................................................82.3 Animal Planet and later projects ................................................................................82.4 Media work ................................................................................................................ 92.5 Honours ....................................................................................................................102.6 Environmentalism ....................................................................................................10
3 Personal life .................................................................................................................... 123.1 Family ...................................................................................................................... 123.2 Controversies ...........................................................................................................123.3 Politics ......................................................................................................................133.4 Search and rescue effort in Mexico .........................................................................133.5 Sports fan ................................................................................................................. 143.6 Other personal trivia ................................................................................................ 14
4 Death ...............................................................................................................................164.1 Reaction ...................................................................................................................18
5 Criticism ..........................................................................................................................205.1 Backlash against stingrays ....................................................................................... 20
6 Funeral and memorials ....................................................................................................226.1 Memorial service ..................................................................................................... 226.2 Other Australian memorials .....................................................................................236.3 American memorials ................................................................................................236.4 Indian memorial .......................................................................................................246.5 Death anniversary ....................................................................................................24
Conclusion .........................................................................................................................26Bibliography ......................................................................................................................27
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Stephe n Rober t Irw in
Steve Irwin in Australia
Born 22 February1962, Essendon, Victoria, Australia
Died4 September 2006, (aged 44), Batt Reef, Queensland,Australia
Occupation
NaturalistZoologistConservationistTelevision Personality
Spouse Terri Irwin
ChildrenBindi Sue IrwinRobert (Bob) Clarence Irwin
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1 Ea r l y yea rs o f l ifeBorn on his mother's birthday to Lyn and Bob Irwin in
Essendon, a suburb ofMelbourne, Victoria, Irwin moved with his
parents as a child to Queensland in 1970. Irwin described his father
as a wildlife expert interested in herpetology whilst his mother Lyn
was a wildlife rehabilitator. After moving to Queensland, Bob and Lyn Irwin started the
small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where Steve grew up around crocodiles and
otherreptiles.
Irwin became involved with the park in a number of ways, including taking part
in daily animal feeding, as well as care and maintenance activities. On his sixth birthday
he was given a 12-foot scrub python. He began handling crocodiles at the age of nine
after his father had educated him on reptiles from an early age. Also at age nine he
wrestled his first crocodile, again under his father's supervision. He graduated from
Caloundra State High School in 1979. He soon moved to Northern Queensland, where he
became a crocodile trapper, removing crocodiles from populated areas where they were
considered a danger. He performed the service for free with the quid pro quo that he be
allowed to keep them for the park. Irwin followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a
volunteer for the Queensland Government's East Coast Crocodile Management program.
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2 C a r e e r2.1 Rise to fame
Irwin feeding a crocodile atAustralia Zoo.
The park was a family run business, until it was turned over to Irwin. He took
over the running of the park, now called Australia Zoo (renaming it in 1992). Also that
year, he appeared in a one-off reptile and wildlife special for television. In 1991, he met
Terri Raines at the park, whilst performing a demonstration. The two married in June
1992, in Eugene, Oregon. The footage, shot by John Stainton, of their crocodile-trapping
honeymoon became the first episode of The Crocodile Hunter. The series debuted on
Australian TV screens in 1996, and by the following year had made its way onto North
American television. The Crocodile Hunterbecame successful in the United States and
also, after repackaging by Partridge Films for ITV, in the UK. In 1998, he continued,
working with producer and directorMark Strickson, to present The Ten Deadliest Snakes
in the World. By 1999, he had become very popular in the United States, making his first
appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. By this time, the Crocodile Hunter
series was now broadcast in over 137 countries, reaching 500 million people. His
exuberant and enthusiastic presenting style, broad Australian accent, signature khaki
shorts, and catchphrase "Crikey!" became known worldwide. Sir David Attenborough
praised Irwin for introducing many to the natural world, saying "He taught them how
wonderful and exciting it was, he was a born communicator.
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Under Irwin's leadership, the operations grew to include the zoo,
the television series, the Steve Irwin Conservation Foundation (renamed
Wildlife Warriors), and the International Crocodile Rescue.
Improvements to the Australia Zoo include the Animal Planet
Crocoseum, the rainforest aviary and Tiger Temple. Irwin mentioned
that he was considering opening an Australia Zoo in Las Vegas,Nevada, and possibly at
other sites around the world.
2.2 Film
In 2001, Irwin appeared in a cameo role in the Eddie Murphy filmDr. Dolittle 2,
in which a crocodile warns Dolittle that he knows Irwin is going to grab him and is
prepared to attack when he does, but Dolittle fails to warn Irwin in time. Irwin's only
starring feature film role was in 2002's The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, which
was released to mixed reviews. In the film Irwin (who portrayed himself and performed
numerous stunts) mistakes some CIA agents for poachers. He sets out to stop them from
capturing a crocodile, which, unknown to him, has actually swallowed a tracking
transmitter. The film won the Best Family Feature Film award for a comedy film at the
Young Artist Awards. The film was produced on a budget of about
$12 million, and has grossed $33 million. To promote the film,
Irwin was featured in an animated short produced by Animax
Entertainment for Intermix.
In 2002, the Irwins appeared in the Wiggles video/DVD release Wiggly Safari,
which was set in Irwin's Australia Zoo. It featured Irwin-themed songs written and
performed by the Wiggles such as "Crocodile Hunter", "Australia Zoo", "Snakes (You
can look but you better not touch)" and "We're The Crocodile Band". Irwin was featured
prominently on the cover and throughout the movie.
In 2006, Irwin provided his voice for the 2006 animated filmHappy Feet, as an
elephant seal named Trev. The film was dedicated to Irwin, as he died during post-
production. Another, previously incomplete scene, featuring Steve providing the voice of
an Albatross and essentially playing himself, was restored to the DVD release.
2.3 Animal Planet and later projects
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Animal Planet ended The Crocodile Hunterwith a series finale entitled "Steve's
Last Adventure." The last Crocodile Hunter documentary spanned three hours with
footage of Irwin's across-the-world adventure in locations including the Himalayas, the
Yangtze River, Borneo, and the Kruger National Park. Irwin went on to star in other
Animal Planet documentaries, including The Croc Files, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries,
and New Breed Vets. As a part of the United States' "Australia Week" celebrations in
January 2006, Irwin appeared at the Pauley Pavilion, UCLA in Los Angeles, California.
During an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Irwin announced that
Discovery Kids would be developing a show for his daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin.[10] The
show, Jungle Girl, was tipped to be similar to The Wiggles movies, with songs that
surround a story. A feature-length episode of Australian kids TV show The Wiggles
entitled "Wiggly Safari" appears dedicated to Irwin, and he's featured in it heavily with
his wife and daughter. The show includes the song "Crocodile Hunter, Big Steve Irwin".
In 2006, the American networkThe Travel Channel had begun to show a series of
specials starring Irwin and his family as they travelled on cross-country tours.
2.4 Media work
A poster from Irwin's Quarantine Matters! campaign.
Irwin was also involved in several media campaigns. He
enthusiastically joined with the Australian Quarantine and
Inspection Service to promote Australia's strict quarantine/customs
requirements, with advertisements and posters featuring slogans
such as, "Quarantine Matters! Don't muck with it". His payments
for these advertising campaigns were directed into his wildlife fund.
In 2004, he was appointed ambassador forThe Ghan, the passenger train running
from Adelaide to Alice Springs in the central Australian outback, when the line was
extended all the way to Darwin on the northern coast that year. For some time he was
sponsored by Toyota.
He was also a keen promoter for Australian tourism in general and Queensland
tourism in particular. In 2002, the Australia Zoo was voted Queensland's top tourist
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attraction. His immense popularity in the United States meant he often promoted
Australia as a tourist destination there.
2.5 Honours
In 2001, Irwin was awarded the Centenary Medal for his "serviceto global conservation and to Australian tourism". In 2004, he was
recognised as Tourism Export of the Year. He was also nominated in
2004 forAustralian of the Year, an honour which was won by Australian
Cricket Captain Steve Waugh. Shortly before his death, he was to be
named an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland's School of
Integrative Biology. On 14 November 2007 Irwin was awarded the adjunct professorship
posthumously by the University of Queensland. In May 2007, the Rwandan Government
announced that it would name a baby gorilla after Steve Irwin as a tribute to his work in
wildlife conservation. The Crocodile Rehabilitation and Research Centre in Neyyar
Wildlife Sanctuary was named by the Kerala government after late Steve Irwin..
2.6 Environmentalism
Irwin was a passionate conservationist and believed in promoting
environmentalism by sharing his excitement about the natural world rather than
preaching to people. He was concerned with conservation ofendangered animals and
land clearing leading to loss of habitat. He considered conservation to be the most
important part of his work: "I consider myself a wildlife warrior. My mission is to save
the world's endangered species." Irwin bought "large tracts of land" in Australia,
Vanuatu, Fiji and the United States, which he described as "like national parks" and
stressed the importance of people realising that they could each make a difference.
He had urged people to take part in considerate tourism and not support illegal
poaching through the purchase of items such as turtle shells orshark-fin soup.
He founded the Steve Irwin Conservation Foundation, which was later renamed
Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, and became an independent charity. He was described
after his death by the CEO ofRSPCA Queensland as a "modern-day Noah," and British
naturalist David Bellamy lauded his skills as a natural historian and media performer.
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Irwin and his father discovered a new species of turtle that now bears his name,
Elseya irwini Irwin's Turtle a species of turtle found on the coast of Queensland.
He also helped to found a number of other projects, such as the International
Crocodile Rescue, as well as the Lyn Irwin Memorial Fund, in memory of his mother
(who was in a fatal car crash in 2000), with proceeds going to the Iron
Bark Station Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.
Irwin, however, was criticised for having an unsophisticated
view ofconservation in Australia that seemed more linked to tourism
than to the problems Australia faces as a continent.
In response to questions of Australia's problems with overgrazing, salinity, and
erosion, Irwin responded, "Cows have been on our land for so long that Australia has
evolved to handle those big animals." The Sydney Morning Herald concluded with the
opinion that his message was confusing and amounted to "eating roos and crocs is bad for
tourism, and therefore more cruel than eating other animals".
According to Terri, Sir David Attenborough was an inspiration to Irwin. When
presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Attenborough after Irwin's death at the
British National Television Awards on October 31, 2006 Terri stated "If there's one
person who directly inspired my husband it's the person being honoured tonight." She
went on to say "[Steve's] real, true love was conservation - and the influence of tonight's
recipient in preserving the natural world has been immense." Sir David reciprocated with
praising Irwin for introducing many to the natural world, saying "He taught them how
wonderful and exciting it was, he was a born communicator."
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3 Per son a l l i fe3.1 Family
Terri Raines Irwin, the widow of Steve Irwin
In 1992, Irwin married Terri Raines from Eugene,
Oregon, United States. The pair had met a few months
earlier, when Terri had visited the zoo on a holiday;
according to both of them, it was love at first sight. Terri said at the time, "I thought there
was no one like this anywhere in the world. He sounded like an environmental Tarzan, a
larger-than-life superhero guy." Together they had two children: a daughter, Bindi Sue
Irwin (born July 24, 1998), and a son, Robert Clarence "Bob" (named after Irwin's father)
Irwin (born December 1, 2003). Bindi Sue is jointly named after two of Steve Irwin's
favourite animals: Bindi, a saltwater crocodile, and Sui, a Staffordshire Bull Terrierwho
died in June 2004.
Irwin was as enthusiastic about his family as he was about his work. He once
described his daughter Bindi as "the reason [he] was put on the Earth." His wife once
said, "The only thing that could ever keep him away from the animals he loves are the
people he loves even more."
Terri Irwin recently reported that Steve had an ongoing premonition that he would
die before he reached age 40. She is writing about this in her upcoming book about her
life with Steve.
3.2 Controversies
A controversial incident occurred during a public show on January 2, 2004, when
Irwin carried his one-month-old son, Bob, in his arm whilst hand-feeding a chicken carcass to Murray, a 3.8-metre (12.5-foot)
saltwater crocodile. The infant was close to the crocodile, and
comparisons were made in the press to Michael Jackson's dangling
his son outside a German hotel window. In addition, child welfare groups, animal rights
groups, and some of Irwin's television viewers criticised his actions as irresponsible and
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tantamount to child abuse. Irwin apologised on the US NBC Today Show. Both he and
his wife publicly stated that Irwin was in complete control of the situation, as he had dealt
with crocodiles since he was a small child, and based on his lifetime of experience neither
he nor his son were in any danger. He also showed footage of the event shot from a
different angle, demonstrating that they were much further from the crocodile than they
had appeared in the publicised clip. Terri Irwin claimed their child was in no more danger
than one being taught to swim. No charges were filed; according to one journalist, Irwin
told officials he would not repeat the action. The incident prompted the Queensland
government to change its crocodile-handling laws, banning children and untrained adults
from entering crocodile enclosures.
In June 2004, allegations were made that he disturbed wildlife (namely whales,
seals andpenguins) whilst filming a documentary,Ice Breaker, in Antarctica. The matter
was subsequently closed without charges being filed.
3.3 Politics
After questions arose about Irwin being paid $175,000
worth of taxpayers' money to appear in a television advertisement
and his possible political ties, Irwin told ABC that he was a
conservationist and did not choose sides in politics.
His comments describing Australian Prime Minister John
Howard as the "greatest leader in the world" earned him scorn in the media.
3.4 Search and rescue effort in Mexico
In November 2003, Irwin was filming a documentary on sea
lions off the coast ofMexico's Baja California Peninsula when he heard
via his boat's radio that two scuba divers were reported missing in the
area. Irwin and his entire crew suspended operations to aid in the search.
His team's divers searched with the rescue divers, and Irwin used his
vessel to patrol the waters around the island where the incident
occurred, as well as using his satellite communications system to call in a rescue plane.
On the second day of the search, kayakers found one of the divers, Scott Jones, perched
on a narrow rock ledge jutting out from the side of a cliff. Irwin and a crewmember
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escorted him to Irwin's boat. Jones did not recognise his celebrity rescuer, as he had never
seen Irwin on television. The other lost diver, Katie Vrooman, was found dead by a
search plane later the same day not far from Jones' location.
3.5 Sports fanHaving grown up in Essendon, Irwin was a fan of the
Essendon Bombers, an Australian rules football club in the
Australian Football League. Irwin took part in an Australian Rules
football promotion in Los Angeles as part of "Australia Week" in
early 2006. After his death, a picture of Irwin wearing a Bombers Guernsey was shown
by ESPN.com in their Bottom 10 ranking of the worst Division I-A college football
teams after Week 1 of the season in tribute to him.
Living in Queensland most of his life, Irwin was also a fan ofrugby league. As a
teenager, he played for the Caloundra Sharks as a second-rower, and as an adult he was
known to be a passionate Brisbane Broncos fan and was involved with
the club on several occasions. On one occasion after turning up to
training he asked if he could tackle the largest player, Shane Webcke.
Despite being thrown to the ground and looking like he'd been crushed
he was jovial about the experience. Irwin laughingly shared the experience with the
Queensland State of Origin squad before the 2006 series. Irwin also supported rugby
union, being a fan of the national team, the Wallabies. He once wore Wallaby jersey
during a demonstration at the zoo. A behind-the-scenes episode ofThe Crocodile Hunter
showed Irwin and the crew finding a gas station in a remote part ofNamibia to watch the
Wallabies defeat France in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final. Irwin was also a talented
surfer.
3.6 Other personal trivia
Irwin was particularly interested in Singapore Zoo, which he
considered a sister institution of the Australia Zoo.
Irwin loved mixed martial arts competitions and trained with Greg
Jackson in the fighting/grappling system ofGaidojutsu.
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4 D e a thCrocodile Hunter's Steve Irwin dies at 44
On September 4, 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the
chest by a stingray spine whilst snorkeling at the Great Barrier
Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast ofPort Douglas
in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own
documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take
the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program
his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John
Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. "He came on top of the stingray and
the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton,
who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the
Queensland Police.[51] After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the
cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman
Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and
there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger byautomatically flexing the serrated spine on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm or
about 10 inches in length) in an upward motion.
Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal. "It stopped and twisted
and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing.
It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by thebull ray was "a
one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Timemagazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I
have only had one do that to me..."
Initially, when Irwin's colleague, John Stainton, was interviewed by CNN's Larry
King late on September 4, 2006 he denied the suggestion that Irwin had pulled the spine
out of his chest, or that he had seen footage of the event, insisting that the anecdote was
"absolute rubbish." The following day, when he first described the video to the media, he
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stated, "Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here [in
the chest], and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone."
It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that a combination of the toxins
and the puncture wound from the spine caused Irwin to die ofcardiac arrest, with most
damage being inflicted by tears to arteries or other main blood vessels. A similar incident
in Florida a month later in which a man survived a stingray barb through the heart
showed that Irwin's removal of the barb may have caused his own death. The coroner's
report has not yet been released.
Crew members aboard his boat called the emergency services in
the nearest city ofCairns and administered CPRas they rushed the boat
to the nearby Low Islets to meet an emergency rescue helicopter.
However despite the best efforts of Irwin's crew, medical staff
pronounced him dead when they arrived a short time later. According to
Dr Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, "it became clear fairly soon that he had non-
survivable injuries. He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost
his pulse and wasn't breathing."
Cairns, Queensland
Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns. His wife, Terri Irwin, was on a
walking tour in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania at the time,
and returned via a private plane from Devonport to the Sunshine Coast with their two
children.
Fatalities due to stingrays are infrequent and occurrences are not consistently
collated. The attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever
captured on film.
Stainton told CNN's Larry King "[The tape] should be destroyed". In an ABC
interview with Barbara Walters, Irwin's wife Terri said she has not seen the film of her
husband's deadly encounter with the stingray and that it would not be shown on
television. On January 3, 2007, the only video footage showing the events that led to
Irwin's death was handed over to Terri, who said that the video would never become
public, and noted her family has not seen the video either. In a January 11, 2007
interview withAccess Hollywood, Terri said that "all footage has been destroyed."
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Production was completed on Ocean's Deadliest, which aired for the first time on
the Discovery Channel on January 21, 2007. The documentary was completed with
footage shot in the weeks following the accident. According to Stainton, "Anything to do
with the day that he died, that film is not available." Perhaps to maintain the film's
original purpose as a nature documentary and prevent it from becoming a documentary of
Irwin's final days, his death is not mentioned in the film, aside from a still image of Irwin
at the end alongside the text "In Memory of Steve Irwin".
4.1 Reaction
News of his death prompted widespread worldwide shock.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard expressed his "shock and
distress" at the death, saying that "Australia has lost a wonderful and
colourful son."[62] Queensland Premier Peter Beattie commented in a
Channel Seven television interview that Irwin "will be remembered as not
just a great Queenslander, but a great Australian". Several Australian news websites went
down because of high web traffic and for the first time the top 10 list of most viewed
stories for Fairfax Digital news sites were swept by one topic. Talk-back radio
experienced a high volume of callers expressing their grief. Flags at the Sydney Harbour
were lowered to half staffin honor of Irwin.
The U.S. feed of the Animal Planet cable television channel aired a special tribute
to Steve Irwin that started on Monday, 4 September2006. The tribute continued with the
Animal Planet channel showing highlights of Irwin's more than 200 appearances on
Discovery Networks shows.
On the evening of his death, Enough Rope re-broadcast an interview between
Irwin and Andrew Denton originally broadcast in 2003. CNN showed a repeat of his
interview on Larry King Live, originally recorded in 2004. The Australian federal
parliament opened on September 5, 2006 with condolence speeches by both the Prime
Minister John Howard and the Leader of the Opposition Kim Beazley. The Seven
Networkaired a television memorial show as a tribute to Irwin on 5 September2006,[68]
as did theNine Networkon September 6, 2006.
Jay Leno delivered a tribute to Irwin, describing him as a great ambassador of
Australia. Irwin appeared on Leno's talk show on more than ten occasions. There were
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also tributes on Live with Regis & Kelly and Barbara Walters' The View; on the former
show, Kelly Ripa came close to tears with her praise of Irwin.
Hundreds of people visited Australia Zoo to pay tribute to
the deceased entertainer and conservationist. The day after his
death, the volume of people visiting the zoo to pay their respects
affected traffic so much that police reduced the speed limit around
the Glass House Mountains Road and told motorists to expect delays. BBC reported on
September 13, 2006 that thousands of fans have been to Australia Zoo since Irwin's
death, bringing flowers, candles, stuffed animals and messages of support.
In the weeks after his death, Irwin's conservation foundation Wildlife Warriors
reported that thousands of people from around the world were offering their support via
donations to the conservation group.
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5 C r i tic i smDan Mathews, vice-president of animal rights group People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said it was "no shock at all that
Steve Irwin should die provoking a dangerous animal". He added that
"Irwin made his career out of antagonising frightened wild animals,
that's a very dangerous message to send to children." He also made a
comparison with another well known conservationist: "If you compare him with a
responsible conservationist like Jacques Cousteau, he looks like a cheap reality TV star."
The son of Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, also a producer of wildlife
documentaries, also took issue with Irwin's hands-on approach to nature television.
Cousteau asserted, "You don't touch nature, you just look at it."
Although it "goes very well on television", Irwin's approach would
"interfere with nature, jump on animals, grab them, hold them, and
have this very, very spectacular, dramatic way of presenting things"
which Cousteau felt is "very misleading". Jacques Cousteau's grandson, Philippe
Cousteau Jr., however, was himself working with Irwin on the "Ocean's Deadliest"
documentary at the time of Irwin's death, and later described him as "a remarkable
individual." Describing their project, he said, "I think why Steve was so excited about it
that we were looking at these animals that people think of as, you know, dangerous and
deadly monsters, and they're not. They all have an important place in the environment
and in the world. And that was what his whole message was about."
5.1 Backlash against stingrays
In the weeks following Irwin's death, at least ten stingrays
were found dead and mutilated, with their tails cut off, on the
beaches ofQueensland, prompting speculation that they had been
killed by fans of Irwin as an act of revenge. Michael Hornby, a
friend of the late naturalist and executive director of Irwin's Wildlife Warrior fund,
condemned any revenge killings.
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"We just want to make it very clear that we will not accept and not stand for
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6 F u n e r a l a n d m e m o r ia l sQueensland PremierPeter Beattie extended the offer of a state funeral to Irwin's
family, an honour also agreed to by Prime Minister John Howard. The family decided
that such a funeral wouldn't be appropriate, a sentiment echoed by many Australians
outside media and political circles. Steve Irwin's father, Bob Irwin, stated that his son
would not have wanted such an honour, and would want to be remembered as an
"ordinary bloke." Beattie stated he would honour the decision of the Irwin family
regarding their arrangements. Irwin was farewelled by family and friends at a private
funeral service held at Caloundra on the afternoon of9 September. The naturalist was
buried in a private ceremony at the zoo on the same day.
6.1 Memorial service
A public service was held at the 5,500-seat Crocoseum at Australia Zoo on
Wednesday morning September 20, 2006. The service was broadcast live, commercial
free, in the eastern states of Australia, by free-to-air channels Seven, Nine and the ABC
in Australia, as well as live on subscription channel Sky News Australia. In addition, it
was broadcast live around the world, particularly the United States, where the service was
broadcast commercial free on Animal Planet, as well as to Asia and Germany. A BBC
camera crew was also sent especially to Australia to cover the memorial service for the
United Kingdom. It is estimated that over 300 million viewers worldwide watched the
service. The memorial was also rebroadcast
on Animal Planet on January 1, 2007 as part
of their New Year's Day celebration, and
again the following day.
The memorial service was held in the
"Crocoseum" atAustralia Zoo
Messages from around the world came from people including Hugh Jackman,
Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe, Kelly Ripa and Larry
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King. Costner called him a "fearless" man who was brave enough to let people see him as
he was.
The Prime Minister John Howard made an early speech at the service, as did
Irwin's father Bob and his daughter Bindi.
Wes Mannion and John Stainton also made speeches and David Wenham read a
poem. Anthony Field from The Wiggles partly hosted the service, often sharing the
screen with various animals, from koalas to elephants, and Australian music star John
Williamson sang True Blue, which was Irwin's favourite song. Professor Craig Franklin
of the University of Queensland told the crowd that the university was about to make
Irwin an adjunct professorfor his contributions to the study of crocodiles. In a symbolic
finish to the service, Irwin's truck was loaded up with gear and driven out of the arena for
the last time as Williamson sang.
In a final tribute, Australia Zoo staff spelled out Irwin's catchphrase "Crikey" in
yellow flowers as Irwin's truck was driven from the "Crocoseum" for the last time to end
the service. Flags on the Sydney Harbour Bridge flew at half mast on the day of the
memorial service.
6.2 Other Australian memorials
Australia to honour Steve Irwin with nature park
Several permanent memorials for Irwin have already been considered or
announced. Premier Peter Beattie suggested a national park be named after
Irwin or a permanent memorial might be constructed in his honour, though the
details of the structure would depend on Irwin's family.
On January 1, 2007, Glasshouse Mountains Road, the road that runs by Steve
and Terri Irwin's Australia Zoo, was officially renamed to "Steve Irwin Way".
There will be a nature park in Australia named after Irwin, the Australian
federal government announced in July 2007.
6.3 American memorials
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Animal Planet will rename the garden in front of
Discovery's world headquarters in Silver Spring,
Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S., to the "Steve
Irwin Memorial Sensory Garden".
Animal Planet is also creating the Steve Irwin
Crocodile Hunter Fund called the "The Crikey Fund" to "provide a way for
people from across the globe to make contributions in Irwin's honor to support
wildlife protection, education and conservation".
Animal Planet ran a The Crocodile Hunter Diaries marathon on air to pay
tribute to Irwin.
There is presently a resolution under consideration in the Kentucky General
Assembly to make February 22, 2007 Steve Irwin Day in honor of what would
have been his 45th birthday.
On the Happy FeetDVD, there is a deleted scene where the main character
Mumble meets an albatross voiced by Irwin and a blue whale. The scene was
unfinished at first but was included on the DVD release to honor Irwin's
memory as Irwin had insisted on being in a film that contained a message
about the environment. However, they took this scene off the movie and
decided to let Irwin play an elephant seal named Trev.
6.4 Indian memorial
A crocodile research centre in Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary was named by the
Kerala government after Steve Irwin.
The state's forest and wildlife department is perhaps the first government body in
the world to name a memorial after Irwin, whose documentaries on wildlife and reptiles
endeared him to thousands of viewers. The centre is now called the Steve Irwin Crocodile
Rehabilitation and Research Centre.
6.5 Death anniversary
On September 4, 2007, Australian fans gathered at
the Irwin family zoo on the Gold Coast, Queensland to
commemorate the first anniversary of Irwin's death. State
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PremierPeter Beattie described Irwin as one of the state's greatest cultural ambassadors.
On November 15, Irwin's widow Terri and children, Bindi and Bob, remembered his life
and achievements on "Steve Irwin Day.
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C onc lus ionIt is my firm belief that the Irwin family helped people to help wildlife. Their
dedication to humanitarian aid in many forms and for many people around the world
runs parallel to their mission ofConservation through Exciting Education.
Even after Steves tragic death the rest of the family are actively involved in
intense conservation work and groundbreaking research into protecting the worlds
precious wildlife and its habitat. They are still fighting to save all species from
persecution and indifference, thus paying tribute to everything that Steve had believed
in, and at the same time, continuing his precious work to protect the environment and
the endangered species.
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