1970 — 2006

STEVE IRWIN

Australia Zoo · in memoriam

The Crocodile Hunter. The greatest conservationist the world has ever seen, and one of the finest reptile handlers who ever lived. He lit the fire for an entire generation of keepers — and made the world fall in love with the animals it had been taught to fear, proving that understanding, not conquest, was always the whole point.

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