Originally Posted by Webby

This is one awesome irrelevant thread - tho would stem from any successful person or popular event.

If the world blew up - we'd have GFY threads supporting the fact that the world "deserved it".

Steve was a much respected guy among his fellow naturalists and conservationists - most of them, by far, better qualified that anyone of GFY to give comment.

He was also committed to educating people about the wildlife of this planet - a subject very few have a clue about - and did this in his own "Crikey! style".

Steve Irwin was passionately against the hunting of wildlife, not just as the popular "Crocodile Hunter", and operated a facility for the rehabilitation of sick and injured creatures.

It is thanks to Steve and people like him that many endangered species still exist and thanks to the ignorant, that many species no longer exist.

On the day Steve died, I bumped into a friend who does similar naturalist work and knows of his contribution to wildlife conservation - he was very sad to hear of Steve's accident and had nothing but praise for him. This same guy is accredited with the recovery of two almost extinct species, is a major contributor to National Geographic and has a allegedly handled more reptile species over the globe than anyone - he is qualified to give an opinion on Steve.

RIP Steve - others will remember you.