Posts Tagged ‘steve irwin’

Russell Crowe Fights To Save Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve From Strip Mining

April 29th 2009

Russell Crowe is joining the fight to help prevent Australian officials from opening up a portion of the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve to a strip mining aluminum company. After the death of Irwin in 2006, politicians donated over 320,000 acres of wilderness to conservationists as a tribute. However, the new Aussie government is now considering [...]

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Bindi Plants A Tree For Late Father Steve Irwin As Part Of Green Initiative

June 6th 2008

Yesterday, on World Environment Day, rising star Bindi Irwin planted the 1.5 millionth tree as part of the State Government’s Three Million Trees program. The goal of the program is to stop climate change and promote biodiversity. In honor of her late father, Bindi named the tree “Steve The Tree”. From the article,
“Mrs Irwin said Bindi and Bob [...]

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Terri Irwin Rallies To Protect Croc Hunter Wildlife Reserve

May 16th 2008

Animal and plant species in the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve may be under threat from potential mining, and Terri Irwin has something to say about it.
Although mining company Cape Alumina’s CEO Paul Messenger has claimed it has “no plans to develop in sensitive wet land areas,” Terri Irwin has made it clear there are species [...]

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Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Org Building Strawbale Animal Hospital

April 29th 2008

Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, the organization set up by Steve Irwin and his family, is currently in the midst of building the “world’s largest wildlife hospital” next door to the Australia Zoo in Queensland. Even better, the massive structure will be built using strawbale — making it one of the biggest such creations using the material [...]

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Yesterday in Sydney, Australia, Bindi Irwin — daughter of the late Steve Irwin — became the fashion world’s youngest designer by unveiling her Bindi Wear International clothing line. As we’ve mentioned before, the more than 100 different items in the collection will all have some measure of green — with 100% of the profits going [...]

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Anti-Whaling Group Renames Ship After Steve Irwin

Crocodile Hunter lives on to save the whales

December 5th 2007

The U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — which recently left port from Melbourne to disrupt Japan’s annual whale hunt — has honored the late Steve Irwin by renaming one of its vessels after the late conservationist. The newly named Steve Irwin will form the backbone of Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic mission. From the article,
“Sea Shepherd founder [...]

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