Steve Irwin

He grew up in a reptile park his parents opened at Beerwah in 1970, took it over in 1991, and renamed it Australia Zoo in 1998. Before any of the television, he spent years volunteering to catch problem crocodiles in north Queensland and move them somewhere they would not be shot, more than a hundred of them, often alone and often at night. He met an American naturalist called Terri Raines in 1991 when she came to watch him do a demonstration, and the footage from their honeymoon became the first episode of The Crocodile Hunter. He died on 4 September 2006 at Batt Reef, aged forty-four. A state funeral was offered and his family declined it, because his father said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke. What he left is a zoo his family still runs, a wildlife hospital named for his mother that treats thousands of animals a year, more than four hundred and fifty thousand acres of protected land, a turtle he and his father discovered on the Burdekin, and two children who grew up on camera and are still doing the work.

A chronological documentary of 917 moments spanning 1962–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

Eras

Wild Australia, The country itself, which is also where the free photographic record is richest. Cape York, the Wenlock and the Burdekin, Queensland bush and wetland, the Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve is here, and the correction that goes with it: he did not buy it. The Australian Government purchased Bertiehaugh Station in 2007, after his death, as a memorial, and the family manages it. His own land purchases, in Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the United States, are a separate and real thing, and the total protected runs past four hundred and fifty thousand acres.
The Zoo, Australia Zoo as a place. It opened on 3 June 1970 as the Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park, became the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park in 1982, and was only renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, seven years after Steve took it over. The grounds, the Crocoseum, the enclosures, the keepers, and the growth from a few acres to something enormous. The public memorial in September 2006 belongs here, introduced by Russell Crowe and watched by an estimated three hundred million people, ending with his ute driven out of the arena by his staff.
Films, The public figure as distinct from the wildlife programmes. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course in 2002, which was not the flop it is sometimes remembered as, taking about thirty three million dollars against a twelve million dollar budget. Happy Feet, the American talk shows, the Walk of Fame star, the Logies. And the thing that happened long after him: Bindi won Dancing with the Stars in 2015, and Robert won it in November 2025 at twenty one, the youngest male winner and the first Australian male winner, which makes them the first pair of siblings to both take it.
Television, The Crocodile Hunter, which began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year, and everything after it: Croc Files, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, New Breed Vets, Bindi the Jungle Girl, and Crikey! It's the Irwins. Note the dating here. Many individual episodes cannot be dated, so rather than guess a year in the middle of a run they are dated to the first year of the series with a note saying the episode year is not established.
Crocodiles, The work he was known for and the work he did before anyone was watching. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching and relocating more than a hundred problem crocodiles that would otherwise have been shot. That was his own unpaid work and not, as it is often told, a government contract shared with his father. Later the demonstrations, the Crocoseum shows, the field research, and the named animals. Robert does this work on camera now, so the segment runs to the present.
Family, Emotionally the centre of the archive. Bob and Lyn, who started the park; Lyn died in 2000 and the wildlife hospital is named for her. Terri, who came to watch a crocodile demonstration in October 1991 and stayed. Bindi and Robert, who grew up on camera and now run and represent the place. Chandler Powell and Grace Warrior, the fourth generation. The family declined the state funeral offered by John Howard and Peter Beattie, because Bob said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
Conservation, Wildlife Warriors, Steve Irwin Day, the land acquisition, and the science. Professor Craig Franklin at the University of Queensland has run the longest crocodile tracking study in the world on the Wenlock River since 2007, and by the 2024 field season it had tracked 296 crocodiles and gathered more than ten million data recordings. He is a non-family academic voice and the best answer to anyone who reads Irwin as only a showman. Also Terri's six-year fight against mining on the reserve, which gathered 451,234 signatures and ended in Strategic Environmental Area protection, and Bob Irwin's own separate foundation.
Reptiles, Where the whole story starts, since the park was a reptile park first. Taipans and other venomous snakes, pythons, goannas and lace monitors, turtles and tortoises. Elseya irwini, Irwin's turtle, is here because it is a father-and-son discovery: Bob and Steve caught the first specimen themselves on the Burdekin River in 1990, Steve photographed it, John Cann confirmed it as a new species, and it was named in 1997 while he was alive. Harriet the Galapagos tortoise is here too, with the zoo's claim that Darwin collected her recorded as a claim, since it is disputed and has never been established.
Photography, The still image as its own body of work: the historic photography of Steve, of which very little exists under a free licence, and Robert Irwin's own award-winning wildlife photography. A note on what is missing and why. Only twenty five freely licensed photographs of Steve exist, from eight separate occasions, almost all of them between 2000 and 2005. His television work and his public appearances are photographed almost entirely by agencies and broadcasters, so the free record shows the zoo keeper rather than the television star, and this archive does not pretend otherwise.
The Hospital, The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, named for Lyn Irwin. The first one opened in 2004 in an old avocado packing shed; a five million dollar replacement opened beside it in 2008 and is claimed to be the largest wildlife hospital in the world. Koala intake and rehabilitation, surgery, release, and the bushfire response. The animals-treated figures come from the zoo and Wildlife Warriors themselves, and the captions say so.

1962 - Mt Beerwah and Mt Coonowrin, Glasshouse Mountains, Sunshine Coast Region QUT-7231-1. Mount Beerwah is the highest of the ten volcanic plugs in the Glass House Mountains range, located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Mount Coonowrin is one of the Glass House Mountains, located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It is easily distinguished because of its rocky formation at the top.
1962 - Glasshouse Mountains from Mary Cairncross Park QUT-7228. The Mary Cairncross Reserve is a conservation park located on the Blackall Range east of Maleny, in Queensland's Sunshine Coast Region of Queensland. The reserve is positioned in the mountain rainforests of the Maleny region overlooking the Glass House Mountains. (Wikipedia).
1962 - Glasshouse Mountains, Sunshine Coast QUT-7229-3. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1962. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1963 - Burdekin Bridge QUT-7358-2. The Burdekin River in north Queensland, 1963. Bob and Steve Irwin caught the first known Irwin's turtle themselves, on a crocodile catching trip on the Burdekin River in 1990. Steve photographed it, the turtle expert John Cann confirmed it was new to science, and Elseya irwini was named in 1997, during his lifetime.
1967 - Burdekin Bridge, c 1967. The Burdekin River in north Queensland, 1967. Bob and Steve Irwin caught the first known Irwin's turtle themselves, on a crocodile catching trip on the Burdekin River in 1990. Steve photographed it, the turtle expert John Cann confirmed it was new to science, and Elseya irwini was named in 1997, during his lifetime.
1969 - Mt Tibrogargan, Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland QUT-7237-3. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1969. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1970 - Glass House Mountains, December 1970. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1970. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1970 - Farm near Mount Tibrogargan, December 1970. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1970. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1970 - Glass House Mountains, December 1970. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1970. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1970 - Cattle farm near Glass House Mountains, December 1970. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1970. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1970 - Glass House Mountains, December 1970. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1970. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1971 - North Coast (now Sunshine Coast) hinterland with the Glasshouse Mountains in the background, 1971. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1971. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1972 - Mt Beerwah and Mt Coonowrin, Glasshouse Mountains QUT-7232. Mount Beerwah is the highest of the ten volcanic plugs in the Glass House Mountains range, located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Mount Coonowrin is one of the Glass House Mountains, located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It is easily distinguished because of its rocky formation at the top.
1972 - Mt Tibrogargan QUT-7238. Mount Tibrogargan is a small mountain in the Glass House Mountains range in Queensland's Sunshine Coast Region. It is a magma intrusion of hard alkali rhyolite that squeezed up into the vents of an ancient volcano 27 million years ago. (Wikipedia).
1972 - Mt Coonowrin, Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland QUT-7233. Mount Coonowrin is one of the Glass House Mountains, located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It is easily distinguished because of its rocky formation at the top. It is also known by its unofficial name Crookneck. (Wikipedia).
1973 - Mt Kilcoy and Mt Beerwah, Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland QUT-7234. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1973. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1975 - On Mount Tibrogargan, Glass House Mountains, Queensland QUT-7166-2. The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The most identifiable of all the mountains is Mount Tibrogargan, which from certain angles, bears a resemblance to a face staring east towards the ocean.
1975 - Mount Tibrogargan, Glass House Mountains, Queensland QUT-7166-1. The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The most identifiable of all the mountains is Mount Tibrogargan, which from certain angles, bears a resemblance to a face staring east towards the ocean.
1975 - Bruce Highway near tthe Glasshouse Mountains between Brisbane and Gympie, 1975. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 1975. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
1995 - Queensland, Australia. Cape York country, 1995. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Cape York covers about 330,000 acres of the old Bertiehaugh Station. The Australian Government bought it in 2007, after his death, as a memorial, and the family manages it.
1996 - Steve Irwin saves some feisty Koalas | Irwin Family Adventures. Koala rescue footage from The Crocodile Hunter, revisited by the family. Koalas are the single largest patient group at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which opened in 2004 and is dedicated to Steve's mother, Lyn Irwin.
1996 - Woohoo! It's almost Steve Irwin Day | Australia Zoo Life. Steve Irwin Day falls on 15 November each year and khaki is the dress code. The family say the date was chosen because it is the birthday of one of Steve's favourite animals, a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo.
1996 - Steve Irwin teaches Kelly Slater to feed crocs | Irwin Family Adventures. Kelly Slater is an eleven-time world surfing champion. Steve was a keen surfer himself and filmed a surfing episode of The Crocodile Hunter in Indonesia with Wes Mannion.
1996 - The Special History of Steve Irwin's Motorbike. Steve's ute was driven out of the Crocoseum by his staff at the close of his public memorial in September 2006, and his vehicles have stayed part of the zoo's fabric ever since. Robert Irwin was two years old when his father died.
1996 - Steve’s Wildest Croc Encounters | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Measuring, handling and releasing saltwater crocodiles was work Steve had been doing long before a camera followed him. He volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program in the late 1970s and 1980s, taking more than 100 problem crocodiles out of populated river systems so they would not be shot.
1996 - Steve and Terri Irwin Play With Pythons! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Pythons are non-venomous constrictors and turn up in suburban roofs and gardens across Queensland. Reptiles are where the family enterprise started: Bob Irwin's own collection became the Beerwah Reptile Park in June 1970.
1996 - Bindi and Chandler throwback to Steve and Sui | Irwin Family Adventures. Sui was Steve's Staffordshire terrier and a constant presence on The Crocodile Hunter. Dogs have stayed part of the family's on-screen life, with Piggy and Stella now filling the same role.
1996 - Happy Steve Irwin Day!. Steve Irwin Day is held every 15 November. It has run annually since the year after his death and is now the largest date in the Australia Zoo calendar.
1996 - Heart-Pounding Close Call: Steve Irwin vs Massive Crocodile | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. The capture technique on screen is the same one he learned removing problem animals for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program. Much of what looked like wrestling was capture-and-release research method, and the tracking programme it fed has since produced peer-reviewed results.
1996 - Steve + Terri Irwin on a rainforest adventure | Irwin Family Adventures. Southern cassowaries are the rainforest bird often called a living dinosaur, and they are threatened in north Queensland. Terri co-presented The Crocodile Hunter from its first episode.
1996 - Steve Irwin Makes a Special Connection with Orangutans | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Orangutans put the series in Southeast Asian rainforest, a long way from the Queensland rivers it started in. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes between 1996 and 2007.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Unbelievable Encounters with Snakes and Sharks | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Snakes and sharks were both regular subjects across the series. Steve had handled venomous snakes since childhood, taught by his father before there was any camera or any audience.
1996 - Steve Irwin Meets Tree-Dwelling Snakes and Lizards | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Arboreal snakes and lizards took the series into the north Queensland rainforest canopy. Reptiles remained the core of the collection at Beerwah even as the zoo expanded.
1996 - Australia Zoo - Steve Irwin Day 2007 Time-lapse. Steve Irwin Day falls on 15 November each year, a date the family say was chosen because it is the birthday of one of Steve's favourite animals, a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo. The 2007 event was the first after his death.
1996 - Freshwater Crocodiles React to Crowded Watering Holes | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Australian freshwater crocodiles concentrate in shrinking waterholes through the northern dry season. They are a separate species from the saltwater crocodiles Steve relocated for the Queensland government.
1996 - Steve Basks in the Sea | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Ocean episodes were a regular part of the series from early on. Steve was an accomplished diver and the marine material sits alongside the crocodile fieldwork rather than as a novelty.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Big Croc Diaries at Australia Zoo | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Many of the crocodiles at Beerwah arrived because Steve had removed them from rivers and beaches where they were in danger of being shot. Some were released into remote habitat, others came into the park, which was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998.
1996 - The magic of the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve | Wildlife Warriors Missions. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve holds 35 distinct ecosystems and, on 2023 figures, 170 bird species, 48 fish, 47 reptiles, 21 amphibians and 20 mammals. Wildlife Warriors describes the Perched Bauxite Springs there as a previously undescribed ecosystem type.
1996 - Unique biodiversity of the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on western Cape York holds 35 distinct ecosystems and, on 2023 figures, 170 bird species, 48 fish, 47 reptiles, 21 amphibians and 20 mammals. The Australian Government bought it in 2007, after his death, as a memorial.
1996 - Steve Relocates His Feistiest Crocodiles | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Relocating crocodiles inside the park was a scaled-down version of the fieldwork that made his name. The property has grown from the two acres Bob and Lyn Irwin opened at Beerwah in June 1970 to roughly 700 acres today, about 110 of them open to visitors.
1996 - Life after Steve Irwin: The Crocodile Hunter's legacy | Documentary | Australian Story (2006). Australian Story returned six weeks after his death, in October 2006. The family declined a state funeral offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie, with Bob Irwin saying Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
1996 - Snakes on the Base! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Sidewinders are American desert rattlesnakes, and the series filmed widely in the United States. It reached North America in 1997 through Animal Planet and Discovery.
1996 - Steve Searches For Camels | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Roadside rescues of injured animals were a recurring thread in the series and are the everyday work the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital was built to do at scale from 2004.
1996 - Karl can't stop laughing at vintage Steve Irwin footage with Rob | Today Show Australia. Robert Irwin was born on 1 December 2003 and was carried through crocodile enclosures as an infant. He now leads the crocodile work at the zoo himself.
1996 - What a night at the Steve Irwin Gala Dinner | Wildlife Warriors Missions. The Steve Irwin Gala Dinner is an annual Wildlife Warriors fundraiser. Wildlife Warriors was founded by Steve and Terri in 2002 as Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, and Robert Irwin is now a board director.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Turtle - Protecting this unique species | Wildlife Warriors Missions. Irwin's turtle, Elseya irwini, is a father-and-son discovery. Bob and Steve caught the first known specimen on a crocodile-catching trip on the Burdekin River in 1990, Steve photographed it, John Cann confirmed it was new to science, and it was named in 1997, during his lifetime.
1996 - Steve Irwin: Passion & Enthusiasm. Terri, Bob Irwin, John Stainton and his colleagues have all said consistently that the on-camera enthusiasm was not a character, and that the only calculated part was aiming it at conservation messaging.
1996 - Steve Irwin’s Jaw-Dropping Encounter With Tiger Sharks | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Tiger sharks are among the largest predatory sharks in Australian waters. Sharks and marine work appear throughout The Crocodile Hunter, and Robert Irwin has since dived with great whites for Discovery.
1996 - Conan & Steve Irwin Wrestle With A Snake | Late Night with Conan O’Brien. American late night was where the persona reached its widest audience, and he almost always brought live animals. He appeared repeatedly with Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Larry King and Oprah Winfrey.
1996 - Steve Irwin's son Robert wins wildlife photography prize | 5 News. Robert Irwin won the People's Choice Award at the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2020, for an aerial photograph of a bushfire front. He was 16.
1996 - Steve & Terri Irwin Explore The Wildlife In Galapagos | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise, lived at Australia Zoo until her death in June 2006. The zoo claimed she had been collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle, a claim historians dispute and which is not established.
1996 - Steve's Favorite Crocs! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Terri Raines was a working naturalist running a cougar rescue in Oregon when she watched Steve do a crocodile demonstration at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park on 6 October 1991. She co-hosted the series throughout and now owns Australia Zoo.
1996 - Steve Irwin’s Gift to the World. Australia Zoo, Wildlife Warriors and the family together now say they protect more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
1996 - The Irwin's Celebrate Their 168-Year-Old Tortoises' Birthday | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Harriet, the Galapagos tortoise at Australia Zoo, died in June 2006 at a reputed great age. The zoo claimed she had been collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, a claim historians dispute and which is not established.
1996 - Steve Irwin’s Family Honors Crocodile Hunter’s Legacy In New Show | TODAY. Crikey! It's the Irwins premiered on Animal Planet in 2018 with Terri, Bindi and Robert, twenty-two years after The Crocodile Hunter first went to air. It ran four seasons to 2022.
1996 - Steve Amazed at Mother Turtle and Her Eggs | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Sea turtle nesting on the Queensland coast is genuine field research, and the family's marine work continues through the wildlife hospital's turtle programme today.
1996 - Steve Irwin Wrestles Conan | Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Talk show appearances are where the persona is most visible and most discussed. Terri, Bob and John Stainton have all said the enthusiasm was genuine, and that the only calculated part was pointing it at conservation.
1996 - Steve Irwin comes face to face with RATTLESNAKES! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Western diamondbacks took the series into the American southwest. Steve's snake handling started at home: Bob Irwin was an amateur herpetologist and the family park opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
1996 - Painting the Night with Light | Steve Templeton | TEDxACU. Light-painting and long-exposure night photography are among the techniques wildlife photographers use in the field. Robert Irwin's own night and aerial work has been exhibited internationally.
1996 - Steve Irwin's best friend tells how Crocodile Hunter saved his life | Today Show Australia. Wes Mannion, the director of Australia Zoo, was Steve's closest friend and is one of the people who has consistently said the on-camera Steve and the off-camera Steve were the same man.
1996 - Steve Irwin Meets Herd of Wild Hippos! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Nile crocodiles on the Luangwa in Zambia took the series well outside Queensland. The crocodile work at home fed a long-term research programme: since 2007 the University of Queensland and Wildlife Warriors have tracked 296 crocodiles on the Wenlock River.
1996 - Steve Irwin Day TV Commercial - Australia Zoo. Steve Irwin Day is held annually on 15 November, and khaki is the dress code. The family say the date was chosen because it is the birthday of one of Steve's favourite animals, a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo.
1996 - Fearless Steve Irwin Saves a Wounded Bear from Certain Death | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. American episodes took the series to bears, rattlesnakes and eagles. Rescue and relocation, rather than confrontation, was the working purpose of nearly everything he filmed.
1996 - Bindi Irwin and Chandler share PERSONAL VIDEOS of new baby and memories of Steve Irwin | Sunrise. Bindi Irwin's daughter Grace Warrior was born on 25 March 2021. Bindi was eight when her father died and read a tribute to him at the public memorial in the Crocoseum in September 2006.
1996 - Robert's Landcare Project - Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. Terri Irwin led a six-year campaign against mining on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, backed by a petition of 451,234 signatures. The Queensland Government legislated protection and the reserve is now a Strategic Environmental Area.
1996 - Steve Relives His Dangerous Moments! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Terri co-hosted The Crocodile Hunter from the first episode, which came out of the crocodile-trapping trip they took instead of a honeymoon in 1992. John Stainton filmed it, and it became the series opener.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Daughter Bindi Is All Grown Up and Super Cute Now!. Bindi Irwin was born on 24 July 1998 and grew up on camera. She won a Logie and became the youngest Daytime Emmy winner for Bindi the Jungle Girl, and is now chief executive of Australia Zoo.
1996 - We stayed at Australia Zoo! The Crocodile Hunter Lodge Full Tour & Review 2024. The Crocodile Hunter Lodge is the zoo's own accommodation on the Beerwah property, which runs to about 700 acres in total with roughly 110 open to day visitors.
1996 - Stingray expert comments after death of Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006 at Batt Reef off Port Douglas, aged 44, when a short-tail stingray barb penetrated his chest. The family have never framed the animal as an aggressor.
1996 - Steve Irwin Studies Sea Turtle in Moreton Bay | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Moreton Bay lies just south of Beerwah and holds significant sea turtle and dugong populations. Sea turtles remain a large part of the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital's caseload.
1996 - Steve And The Komodo Dragon | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards and are found only on a handful of Indonesian islands. The series regularly worked outside Australia while keeping Beerwah as its base.
1996 - Steve Irwin talks about his love for daughter Bindi Irwin (2003 interview) | Australian Story. Australian Story interviewed him in 2003, the year before Robert was born. Bindi Irwin was born on 24 July 1998, the year the park was renamed Australia Zoo, and is now its chief executive.
1996 - Bindi Irwin, the daughter of the late conservationist, Steve Irwin, is getting married. Chandler Powell proposed to Bindi Irwin on her 21st birthday, 24 July 2019. They married at Australia Zoo on 25 March 2020 and their daughter Grace Warrior was born on their first anniversary.
1996 - AUSTRALIA ZOO CROCOSEUM | BINDI IRWIN| AUSTRALIA SUNSHINE COAST| STEVE IRWIN ZOO| DEATH ROLL. The Crocoseum seats 5,500 around a central crocodile lagoon and was designed by Steve himself. The death roll is the crocodile's natural feeding behaviour, not a trained routine.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (8/10) Movie CLIP - The Ride of Our Lives (2002) HD. John Stainton directed the 2002 feature, having filmed Steve since the honeymoon crocodile-trapping trip of 1992. The film took about 33 million US dollars against a budget of roughly 12 million.
1996 - Irwin Caught Waves and Venomous Snakes in Southeast Asia | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Steve was a keen surfer and filmed in Indonesia with his friend Wes Mannion, the zoo's director. Mistreated captive reptiles were a recurring subject, and rescue was usually the point of the trip.
1996 - Steve and Terri Irwin Explore the Wildlife of Cape York! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Cape York is where the conservation legacy would settle. In 2007 the Australian Government bought about 330,000 acres of former cattle station on the peninsula and named it the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve.
1996 - Steve and Terri Irwin on a night rescue | Irwin Family Adventures. Roadside rescue was ordinary evening work for the family long before there was a hospital on site. Lyn Irwin had rehabilitated orphaned marsupials since the 1970s, and the hospital that opened in 2004 carries her name.
1996 - Steve Irwin’s Adventures in America | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. American audiences met the series in 1997, a year after its Australian debut, through Animal Planet and Discovery. The North American broadcast is what turned a Queensland reptile park into an international destination.
1996 - Steve Irwin Explores Isolated Fraser Island | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Fraser Island sits off the Queensland coast north of Beerwah, close to the country the family knew best. The Irwins moved north from Victoria in 1970 and opened the Beerwah Reptile Park on 3 June that year.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (10/10) Movie CLIP - Croc on Board (2002) HD. John Stainton directed Collision Course, as he had produced and directed the television series since the honeymoon footage of 1992. He was the single most important professional collaborator of Steve's career.
1996 - Bindi Irwin's daughter stops to marvel at photo of late grandpa Steve Irwin. Grace Warrior Irwin Powell was born on 25 March 2021, fifteen years after her grandfather died. She is the fourth generation of the family at Beerwah, after Bob and Lyn, Steve and Terri, and Bindi.
1996 - The 20th year of Wildlife Warriors at the Steve Irwin Gala Dinner! | Wildlife Warriors Missions. Wildlife Warriors was founded by Steve and Terri in 2002, so 2022 marked twenty years. The Steve Irwin Gala Dinner is its annual fundraiser.
1996 - STEVE IRWIN - Before They Were GONE - BIOGRAPHY. Steve Irwin was born on 22 February 1962 at Upper Ferntree Gully in Victoria, and the family moved to Queensland in 1970. He took over the family park in 1991 and renamed it Australia Zoo in 1998.
1996 - Family of late 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin is returning to Animal Planet. Crikey! It's the Irwins premiered on Animal Planet in 2018 with Terri, Bindi and Robert, twelve years after Steve's death, and ran four seasons to 2022.
1996 - How Steve and Terri Fell Madly in Love! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Terri Raines met Steve on 6 October 1991 at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where she had come to watch a crocodile demonstration. She described the impression as an environmental Tarzan, a larger-than-life superhero guy.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Best Moments: Venomous Snakes | Real Wild. Australia holds more venomous snake species than any other country, and the remote-country snake episodes are among the most substantial in the series. Reptiles are where the family story begins.
1996 - Steve and Terri CAPTURE A Freshwater Croc! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Australian freshwater crocodiles are a different animal from the saltwater crocodiles Steve relocated for the Queensland government. Both live at the zoo, and Robert Irwin now presents the freshwater and alligator feeds on camera.
1996 - Iconic interview with Steve and Terri Irwin at Australia Zoo | 60 Minutes Australia. The Crocodile Hunter reached more than 100 countries at its peak, and the audience figures quoted at the time were distribution reach rather than measured viewing. Terri co-hosted the series from its first episode.
1996 - Special moments on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve | Wildlife Warriors Missions. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve covers about 330,000 acres on western Cape York, north of Weipa, and was formerly Bertiehaugh Station. The Australian Government bought it in 2007, after Steve's death, and the family manage it.
1996 - Australia Zoo Tour with Steve Irwin. A tour of the zoo given by the man who built it. Steve took over the park from his parents in 1991, and it was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, the year Bindi was born.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (1/10) Movie CLIP - What a Steamer! (2002) HD. Collision Course was released in 2002, the same year Steve and Terri founded Wildlife Warriors. It roughly tripled its budget theatrically.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (3/10) Movie CLIP - Fun With a Snake (2002) HD. Collision Course was released in 2002, directed by John Stainton, who had filmed Steve since the honeymoon crocodile-trapping trip of 1992. It took about 33 million US dollars against a budget of roughly 12 million.
1996 - Steve Shows How to Catch A Crocodile | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Trapping, netting and lassoing were the working methods of the East Coast Crocodile Management Program, not television inventions. Steve caught more than 100 crocodiles this way as a volunteer before any of it was filmed.
1996 - Steve Irwin Gets Attacked By Vicious Komodo Dragon! | Crocodile Hunters: The Best Of Steve Irwin. Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards and Steve filmed them on the Indonesian islands in the 1990s. Terri and Wes Mannion have both spoken often about what the fieldwork was actually like.
1996 - Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve research | Wildlife Warriors Missions. Professor Craig Franklin of the University of Queensland runs the acoustic telemetry and satellite tracking programme on the reserve. He knew and worked with Steve personally and is the leading independent academic voice on the seriousness of the science.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Wildest Snake Encounters | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Snakes came before crocodiles in this family. Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park he and Lyn opened at Beerwah in 1970 was a reptile park first.
1996 - Terri Irwin On Steve’s Ultimate Dream | Studio 10. The ambition Steve talked about most was land. The family and Australia Zoo now say they hold more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (7/10) Movie CLIP - King Brown Snake (2002) HD. King brown snakes are among Australia's most venomous. Snake handling was the first skill Steve learned, taught by his father Bob at the family reptile park in Beerwah.
1996 - Steve, Snakes, & Scorpions! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. African episodes took the series to snakes, spiders and scorpions well outside the Queensland material. The Crocodile Hunter reached North America in 1997 through Animal Planet and Discovery.
1996 - An incredible croc on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve | Wildlife Warriors Missions. Saltwater crocodiles tracked on the Wenlock River have been documented making long-distance ocean journeys, one of the programme's more surprising findings. Steve was personally involved in the capture and tagging work.
1996 - Steve Encounters Wild Boars and Large Lizards | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Cape York is where the conservation story would later land: the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, about 330,000 acres of former cattle station on the peninsula's western side, was bought by the Australian Government in 2007 as a memorial to him.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (5/10) Movie CLIP - Steve Flirts With a Spider (2002) HD. Collision Course put his ordinary field manner on a cinema screen, and John Stainton, who had filmed him since 1992, directed it. The film took about 33 million US dollars against a 12 million budget.
1996 - The Irwin family on life without Steve | 60 Minutes Australia. Terri Irwin has owned and managed Australia Zoo since 2006 and has said repeatedly that she does not intend to remarry. She was a working naturalist running a cougar rescue in Oregon before she ever came to Queensland.
1996 - A Snake BITES Steve! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Snakebite and injury were an ordinary part of the work, not a rarity. He had been handling reptiles since childhood, taught by his father, and had caught his first crocodile at nine.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (6/10) Movie CLIP - Exploring a Spider Hole (2002) HD. Funnel-webs and trapdoor spiders were regular subjects in his television work as well. Collision Course was released in 2002 and was his only starring feature.
1996 - A closer look at the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve.. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve covers about 134,000 hectares, roughly 330,000 acres, on western Cape York. It holds 35 distinct ecosystems, including the Perched Bauxite Springs, which Wildlife Warriors describes as a previously undescribed ecosystem type.
1996 - Robert Irwin Emotionally Reveals If He Talks To Late Dad Steve Irwin. Robert Irwin was two years old when his father died in September 2006 and has grown up with an archive of him rather than a memory. He is now on the Australia Zoo management team and a Wildlife Warriors board director.
1996 - Steve's Dream: The Crocoseum | Irwin Family Adventures. The Crocoseum was Steve's own design, a 5,500-seat arena built around a crocodile lagoon and described by the zoo as the largest wildlife stadium in the world. It is also where his public memorial was held.
1996 - Steve Irwin Gushes Over His Family's Bond In 2001 Interview. Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006 at Batt Reef off Port Douglas, aged 44, while filming for the documentary Ocean's Deadliest. Bindi was eight and Robert was two.
1996 - Steve Irwin Day. 15 November each year and khaki is the dress code. It has run annually since 2007.
1996 - Steve Irwin Surfs with Snakes! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Wes Mannion is a lifelong friend and the director of Australia Zoo, and he appears throughout the series. He is one of the people who has consistently said the on-camera Steve was the off-camera Steve.
1996 - Steve Catches Rodents On The Farm | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Mouse plagues in the Australian grain belt are a real and recurring event, and the series covered ordinary Australian wildlife as often as it covered crocodiles. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter Official Trailer #1 - David Wenham Movie (2002) HD. David Wenham co-starred in Collision Course alongside Steve and Terri. Released in 2002 and directed by John Stainton, it took roughly 33 million US dollars against a budget of about 12 million.
1996 - Terri Irwin Reveals Steve Irwin Was A 'Crazy Romantic': Everyday With Him Was 'A Honeymoon!'. Terri Raines met Steve on 6 October 1991 at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and they married in Oregon the following June. She described her first impression of him as an environmental Tarzan, a larger-than-life superhero guy.
1996 - Terri Irwin talks about the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. Terri Irwin led the six-year campaign to stop mining on the reserve, gathering 451,234 signatures. Wildlife Warriors says the Strategic Environmental Area status it won affords the land more protection than the Great Barrier Reef.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Trailer - 2002 - 35mm - Scope - Stereo. Collision Course reached cinemas in 2002 and was his only starring feature. Its reputation as a failure does not match the numbers: about 12 million US dollars in budget against about 33 million in gross.
1996 - Steve Irwin Confronts a GIANT Komodo Dragon | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Komodo dragons took the series to Indonesia. The Crocodile Hunter reached more than 100 countries at its peak, though the frequently quoted 500 million viewers is a distribution reach figure rather than a measured audience.
1996 - Steve Rehabilitates a Snakes | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Sri Lanka has among the highest snakebite death rates in the world, which made it a serious subject rather than a spectacle. The series covered venomous snakes as a public health matter more than once.
1996 - Steve & Terri Encounter A Color Changing Baby Python | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Cape York is the last wild frontier of the Australian east coast, and it is where the conservation legacy settled: the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, about 330,000 acres on the peninsula's western side, was bought by the Australian Government in 2007 as a memorial to him.
1996 - Australia Zoo - Steve Irwin day!!. Steve Irwin Day is held annually on 15 November, with khaki as the dress code. The family say the date is the birthday of one of Steve's favourite animals, a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo.
1996 - Steve Irwin on how much he loves daughter Bindi Irwin | 60 Minutes Australia. Charles Wooley interviewed him for 60 Minutes in 2002, when Bindi was four. Bindi Irwin is now chief executive of Australia Zoo and has a daughter of her own, Grace Warrior, born in 2021.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Unbelievable Encounter with Nile Crocodiles | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Nile crocodiles are the African counterpart to the saltwater crocodiles Steve worked with at home. The approach on camera is the capture technique he developed relocating problem animals in Queensland rather than a stunt built for television.
1996 - A Spitting Snake Spat on Steve! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Spitting cobras project venom several metres towards the eyes as a defence. Reptile handling was the skill Steve had longest, learned from his father before he had ever seen a camera.
1996 - Steve Encounters a Deadly Venomous Cobra! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Black mambas and cobras took the series to Kenya. Reptiles are where the family story starts and they remained a permanent part of the collection at Beerwah.
1996 - Steve Irwin Swam with American Alligators in the Everglades | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Bindi Irwin was born on 24 July 1998, the same year the park was renamed Australia Zoo, and she travelled with her parents on shoots from infancy. American alligators are a separate species from the crocodiles the family works with in Queensland.
1996 - Steve Irwin's daughter at the UN. Bindi Irwin was eight years old and had lost her father the previous September. She read a tribute to him at his public memorial in the Crocoseum, and went on to front her own Discovery Kids series.
1996 - Steve Befriends A Snake in the Outback | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. The central Australian desert was a recurring location for the series, which covered far more than crocodiles across its 78 episodes.
1996 - Love Is In The Air For Crocodiles Acco & Cassie | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Acco and Cassie are two of the best known crocodiles in the collection. Terri Irwin has run Australia Zoo since 2006 and took Australian citizenship; she was a working naturalist before she ever met Steve.
1996 - Steve Irwin Sneaks Up On the King of the Outback! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Uluru, still often called Ayers Rock at the time, and the Simpson Desert dunes gave the series its desert episodes. Terri co-presented from the first episode.
1996 - Steve Irwin Becomes Target for Predators in Africa | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Namibia gave the series big cats and open country. Terri Irwin co-presented the show from the first episode, which came out of the crocodile-trapping trip they took in place of a honeymoon in 1992.
1996 - Steve Irwin Encounters Cute Lizards & Deadly Snakes | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Australia has more venomous snake species than any other country, and the reptile material runs through the whole series. The family park had opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
1996 - Steve Irwin Interacts With Razorbacks! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Feral pigs are a serious pest across northern Australia and the series took them seriously as an ecological subject rather than a curiosity.
1996 - Crocodile made famous by Steve Irwin at centre of dispute | 9 News Australia. Wild crocodile management in Queensland is a live public argument, and Bob Irwin has been one of its more outspoken voices since stepping away from Australia Zoo to run his own foundation.
1996 - Uncovering the Legacy of Steve Irwin's Parents | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Bob Irwin, born 8 June 1939, was a plumber and amateur herpetologist; Lyn Irwin was a maternity nurse who rehabilitated orphaned marsupials. They opened the Beerwah Reptile Park on 3 June 1970 and Steve took it over in 1991.
1996 - Steve Irwin Gets Cozy with Cuddly Creatures | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. The series covered far more than crocodiles, from big cats to orangutans, across 78 episodes between 1996 and 2007. Steve's colleagues have consistently said the on-camera enthusiasm was not a character.
1996 - Steve Handles Leaping Lizards! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Frilled lizards, goannas and thorny devils are the desert reptiles the series covered alongside the crocodiles. Reptiles are where the entire family enterprise began.
1996 - Steve Vs. The Craziest Crocs He's Ever Encountered | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Crocodilian work is the densest single body of footage in his career, and it started as unpaid government volunteering rather than as television. More than 100 crocodiles were caught before the cameras arrived.
1996 - Steve's Favorite Wild Creatures of SEASON 3 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season three ranged across snakes, Komodo dragons and crocodiles. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes, and the separate behind-the-scenes series, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, ran to 96 more.
1996 - Steve Irwin helps an infertile alligator breed! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Breeding work with crocodilians is slow, technical science rather than spectacle. The tracking programme it sits alongside has run on the Wenlock River since 2007 with the University of Queensland.
1996 - SEASON 1 DEADLIEST Creatures | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. The Crocodile Hunter debuted on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year through Animal Planet and Discovery. Terri co-hosted from the first episode.
1996 - Steve's Favorite Creatures of SEASON 4 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season four moved between crocodiles, camels, lemurs and snakes. The programme's range is the reason it travelled: it reached more than 100 countries at its peak.
1996 - Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve. The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve holds 35 distinct ecosystems across rainforest, wetland and savanna, and on 2023 figures 170 bird species, 48 fish, 47 reptiles, 21 amphibians and 20 mammals.
1996 - Steve Irwin’s Encounters with Sea Creatures | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Marine work was a constant thread through the series, from whale sharks to sea turtles. Steve was a serious diver and much of the ocean material sits alongside the crocodile fieldwork rather than apart from it.
1996 - Steve and Terri Irwin save wildlife | Irwin Family Adventures. Bushfire rescue was ordinary work for the family long before the 2019 and 2020 fires made it international news. Lyn Irwin had been rehabilitating burned and orphaned wildlife since the 1970s.
1996 - Just Like Dad! Steve Irwin’s Influence on His Family ❤️🐊 🐍 Animal Planet. Both of Steve's children have made careers in the same work: Bindi is chief executive of Australia Zoo, and Robert is on the management team and a Wildlife Warriors board director as well as an award-winning wildlife photographer.
1996 - Steve Irwin Comes Face to Face with Deadly Snakes | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Venomous snake handling was the first skill he learned, taught by his father at Beerwah. The park opened in 1970 as a reptile park and reptiles remain a large part of the collection.
1996 - Steve Irwin's favourite wild dogs - Dingoes! | Australia Zoo Life. Dingoes are Australia's native dog and a contested species in Queensland land management. Bob Irwin, who founded the park in 1970, has campaigned on Queensland wildlife policy in his own right for years.
1996 - Steve's Favorite Creatures of SEASON 6 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. By its sixth season the series was travelling worldwide, though the crocodile work in northern Queensland remained its spine. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes.
1996 - How Steve Irwin’s Family Is Saving Injured Australian Animals. The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital handled a large intake through the 2019 and 2020 Australian bushfires. It opened in 2004, is dedicated to Lyn Irwin, and now treats up to 10,000 animals a year according to Australian Geographic.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Adventures in the Outback | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Outback material gave the series its range: crocodiles, snakes, malas and skinks in the same programme. The park at Beerwah had opened as a reptile park in 1970 and reptiles stayed at the centre of the work.
1996 - Steve vs. Birds & Beasts! 🐦 The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Emus and cockatoos are the ordinary Australian wildlife the series covered as readily as its dangerous animals. That breadth is what carried the programme through 78 episodes.
1996 - Steve's Favorite Creatures of SEASON 5 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season five ranged from spiders and lions to the crocodile diaries filmed at the zoo. The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, a separate behind-the-scenes series, ran to 96 episodes between 2002 and 2006 and is the largest single body of episodes.
1996 - Best Moments from Early Seasons | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Early seasons were shot largely around the family park, then still called the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. It was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, seven years after Steve took it over.
1996 - SEASON 2 Steve's Favorite Creatures | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season two mixed mouse plagues, crocodile traps and sharks. The trapping and mud-wrestling sequences show the working relocation method Steve used as a Queensland government volunteer.
1996 - Bear Grylls vs. Steve Irwin - Rap Battle!. Twenty years after his death he is still a fixture of internet culture, from tribute animation to fan-made comedy. He is also one of the most heavily fabricated figures online, which is why this archive quotes him only from footage, journalism or his own books.
1996 - Steve Irwin Rescues Abused & Scared Crocodile | Crocodile Hunters: The Best Of Steve Irwin. Crocodile work in Timor-Leste took the method abroad. Removing an animal to safety rather than destroying it was the whole point of the East Coast Crocodile Management Program he volunteered for at home.
1996 - Bear Grylls vs. Steve Irwin - Behind the Greens. The persona travelled far beyond wildlife television and is still being reinterpreted by people who never watched the original broadcasts. Terri, Bob and John Stainton have all said consistently that the on-camera enthusiasm was not a character.
1996 - "Crocodile Hunter" - Gabriel Iglesias (from Hot & Fluffy comedy special). The accent, the khaki and the crikey became standup material within his lifetime. His colleagues have consistently said the enthusiasm was genuine and that the only calculated part was aiming it at conservation.
1996 - Steve Irwin's Biggest Crocodile Battles (Wildlife Documentary) | Real Wild. Catching a problem crocodile and releasing it away from people is exactly the work Steve did as a volunteer in the late 1970s and 1980s, more than 100 animals in all, before any of it was televised.
1996 - Steve Irwin “The Crocodile Hunter” Owns Australia Zoo!. Steve took over the family park from Bob and Lyn Irwin in 1991 and renamed it Australia Zoo in 1998. Terri Irwin has owned it since 2006, with Bindi as chief executive.
1996 - Steve Irwin Catches A Crocodile In Epic Battle. Relocating a large male crocodile out of a populated river is the original job. Steve did it for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, and it is where the entire Crocodile Hunter method came from.
1996 - Steve Irwin Relocates Australia Zoo's Crocodiles | Crocodile Hunters: The Best Of Steve Irwin. Relocating the park's crocodiles required inventing a safer method, and Steve's team tested it on the animals they knew best. The property was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, seven years after he took it over from his parents in 1991.
1996 - Steve Irwin Introduces Conan To A Crocodile | Late Night with Conan O’Brien. American talk shows were where the persona reached its largest audience, and he brought live animals to nearly all of them. The Crocodile Hunter had reached North America through Animal Planet the year before.
1996 - The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2/10) Movie CLIP - Crocodile Hunting at Night (2002) HD. Released in 2002 and directed by John Stainton, this was Steve's only starring feature. It is often described as a flop and was not: roughly 12 million US dollars in budget against roughly 33 million in gross.
1996 - Steve Irwin Faces A Massive Saltwater Crocodile In Australia | Crocs Down Under | Real Wild. Saltwater crocodiles grow to six metres and a tonne, which is why the relocation work was dangerous and why it mattered. Steve took more than 100 of them out of populated Queensland waterways as a government volunteer.
1996 - Steve Irwin Meets The World's Most Venomous Snakes | Real Wild. Australia holds most of the world's most venomous snakes, and reptiles are where the family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
1996 - Starstruck by the world's oldest living crocodile | Killer Crocs with Steve Backshall. Crocodile documentary work continued long after him and the animals he made famous are still filmed. Saltwater crocodiles are among the longest-lived reptiles in captivity, which is why the individuals at Australia Zoo have decades-long records.
1997 - Terri Irwin, The Croc Hunter's Wife. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, 1997. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot. The park was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998.
2000 - Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Murray River Turtle (Emydura macquarii). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Tussock Rainbow-skink (Carlia vivax). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Shingleback Lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Perentie (Varanus giganteus). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Mertens' Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Shingleback Lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Shingleback Lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Shingleback Lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Scrub Python (Morelia amethistina) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Murray River Turtle (Emydura macquarii). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Terri Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Filming at Australia Zoo in 2000. The Crocodile Hunter began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year.
2000 - Perentie (Varanus giganteus). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Terri Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Filming at Australia Zoo in 2000. The Crocodile Hunter began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year.
2000 - Mertens' Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi). Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii). The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2000. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2000 - Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - Carpet Python (Morelia spilota) close-up. Photographed in 2000. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2000 - The Late " Crocodile Hunter " Steve Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2000 - The Late " Crocodile Hunter " Steve Irwin after playing with Dingos. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2000 - The Late " Crocodile Hunter " Steve Irwin after playing with Dingos. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2000 - The Late " Crocodile Hunter " Steve Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2000 - Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2000 - Johnson's Crocodile (Crocodylus johnsoni). A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2000 - Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2000 - Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2000. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2001 - Steve irwin rip. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2001. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2002 - Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2002. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2002 - A wombat in Australian Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2002. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2002 - Me in front of a giant snake. Photographed in 2002. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2002 - A lizard. Photographed in 2002. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2002 - Crocodile show. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2002. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2002 - Crocodile show. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2002. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2003 - DSC01612. Photographed in 2003. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2003 - Wild Horse Sunset. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2003. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2003 - Glass House Mountains Australia Queensland - panoramio. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2003. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2003 - Glass House Mountains Australia Queensland - panoramio - Vinko Rajic. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2003. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (1). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (2). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (3). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (4). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (5). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2003 - Steve Irwin, Crocoseum, Australia Zoo in 2003 (6). Steve Irwin working a crocodile demonstration in the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2003. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2004 - P9020047. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2004. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2004 - P1010078 - Flickr - AdaMacey. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2004. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2004 - P1010035 - Flickr - AdaMacey. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2004. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2004 - P1010035. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2004. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2004 - P1010078. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2004. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2004 - Glasshouse Mountains from Caloundra - panoramio. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2004. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2004 - Glasshouse Mountain. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2004. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2004 - Irwin's turtle. Bob and Steve Irwin caught the first known Irwin's turtle themselves, on a crocodile catching trip on the Burdekin River in 1990. Steve photographed it, the turtle expert John Cann confirmed it was new to science, and Elseya irwini was named in 1997, during his lifetime.
2004 - Darwins Tortoise Harriet RIP. Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise, lived at Australia Zoo until her death in June 2006. The zoo claimed she had been collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, but that claim is disputed and has never been established.
2004 - Australia Zoo Steve Irwin feeding Crocodile. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2004. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2004 - Steve Irwin feeding Croc. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2004. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2004 - Australia Zoo Steve Irwin feeding Crocodile. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2004. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2004 - Salty - Flickr - AdaMacey. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2004. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2004 - Salty. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2004. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2005 - Injured Kookaburra on Rock. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Koala - Australia Zoo. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Koala park sanctuary, Sydney, Australia. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Koala - Australia Zoo. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Steve Irwin December 2005 (4x5 cropped). Steve Irwin at Australia Zoo, 2005. Steve took over the running of the park from his parents in 1991.
2005 - Angelo Montano & Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin at Australia Zoo, 2005. Steve took over the running of the park from his parents in 1991.
2005 - Baby Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Mama and baby koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Koala - Australia Zoo. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Koala - Australia Zoo. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2005. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2005 - Angelo Montano Steve Irwin Terri irwin. Terri Irwin at Australia Zoo in 2005. He met Terri Raines, an American naturalist from Eugene, Oregon, on 6 October 1991, when she came to watch him do a crocodile demonstration.
2005 - Glasshouse Mountains - panoramio. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Kookaburra on the Fence. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Glasshouse Mountains - vyhlídka - panoramio. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Mount Tibrogargan, Glass House Mountains. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - PC270040-Sandals White House, Jamaica as seen from a boat. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Glasshouse Kookaburra-26. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Glass House Mountains. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Kookaburra Head. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Glasshouse Kookaburra on Ground-01. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Kookaburra on Fence. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise - Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Mount Tibrogargan, Glass House Mountains. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise - Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Glass House Mountains. The Glass House Mountains behind Beerwah, 2005. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in Queensland on 3 June 1970, after moving the family up from Victoria.
2005 - Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Australian Darter - Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Tortoise - Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Tiger Snake (Notechis) - Australia Zoo. Photographed in 2005. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 51. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 46. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 53. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 47. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 45. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Dubbo's Zoo - 44. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Tortoise - Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Deadly Taipan Snake-04. Photographed in 2005. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2005 - Deadly Taipan Snake-04. Photographed in 2005. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2005 - Stickin' his neck out. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Australian Water Dragon. Photographed in 2005. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2005 - Unknown monitor - Australia Zoo. Photographed in 2005. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2005 - Varanus mertensi. Photographed in 2005. Reptiles are where the Irwin family story starts: Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park at Beerwah opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
2005 - Steve irwin at Australia zoo. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2005 - The croc man. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2005 - Steve Irwin, December 2005. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2005 - Crocodile at Australia Zoo. Steve Irwin hand feeding a crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he volunteered for the Queensland East Coast Crocodile Management Program, catching more than 100 problem saltwater crocodiles so they would not be shot.
2005 - ZooStadion. The Crocoseum at Australia Zoo, 2005. The Crocoseum is a 5,500 seat arena with a central crocodile lagoon, designed by Steve himself, and it hosts the daily Wildlife Warriors Show.
2005 - Salt water Crocodile - Australia Zoo. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2005 - Macaw at Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Macaw at Australia Zoo. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2005. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2005 - Salt water crocodile - Australia Zoo. A saltwater crocodile at Australia Zoo, 2005. Wildlife Warriors and the University of Queensland have tracked saltwater crocodiles on the Wenlock River since 2007, in what is described as the longest running crocodile tracking study in the world. By the end of the 2024 field season it had followed 296 crocodiles and gathered over ten million data recordings.
2006 - Tributes to Steve Irwin-05. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - flowersforsteve. Australia Zoo at Beerwah, 2006. Australia Zoo now covers about 700 acres, of which roughly 110 are open to visitors, and it is still run by the family: Terri owns it, Bindi is chief executive and Robert is on the management team.
2006 - Tributes to Steve Irwin-05. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - Aust Zoo Saturday-31. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2006. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2006 - Aust Zoo Saturday-31. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2006. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2006 - Steve Irwin-041. These photos were taken morning after Steve died from a StingaRay barb punture into his heart. As the day morning went along, traffic became heavy and tributes poured in. I would say there would be twice as many now as in these photos. Now and again, a good person is born, then that person is taken from us too early.
2006 - Heron. Photographed in 2006. Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors say the family now holds more than 450,000 acres of habitat across Queensland, a figure that traces to the family and the zoo themselves.
2006 - Australia Zoo-015. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2006. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2006 - Koala. A koala at Australia Zoo, 2006. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that the hospital now treats up to 10,000 animals a year, making it the largest facility of its kind in the country. Koalas are its single largest patient group.
2006 - Thank up you for Visiting-01. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
2006 - Aust Zoo Saturday-30. Tributes left at Australia Zoo, 2006. A state funeral was offered by Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Peter Beattie. The family declined it, and Bob Irwin said Steve would have wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke.

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