Australia Honors Late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ with ‘Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.30.07 | 1:02 PM ET
Australia Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently announced plans to create a wildlife reserve in Far North Queensland on Cape York Peninsula, fulfilling a dream of Steve Irwin, the late “Crocodile Hunter.” The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve will contain 333,585 acres of wetlands and forests. Irwin’s family will manage the reserve. “Steve was in awe of the prolific wildlife of the Wenlock and Ducie rivers bordering the reserve,” Terri Irwin said of her late husband, “and he would have been proud to see the property protected as a wildlife reserve.” Irwin was killed almost a year ago by a poisonous stingray.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
