Steve Irwin (crocodile hunter) dies..........

[Pooh67_68]

I agree Nutsy, he looks so so sad and tired.

So much sadness in this poor mans face and voice... such a terrible shame.

 

[Nutsy]

Honestly, this whole story is heartbreaking. Thanks for keeping us up to date.

It really is hey? The poor guy just sounded so sad when he was talking and there was a point there when I sure he was on the verge of tears.

 

[lucas]

Thanks for the updates, Nutsy. It's much appreciated as we don't hear any of the news here.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Thanks for the updates, Nutsy. It's much appreciated as we don't hear any of the news here.

that's a good point. Steve Irwin was well loved over here too, and I haven't heard anything recently about this. A few weeks ago when it came out that Teri was thinking of selling the zoo that was on the news. But nothing of the "feud" I can recall.

 

[BuckyFan04]

Thanks for all the updates, Nutsy. I haven't really been hearing anything about this where I am either.

I don't really know what to say about this situation. With all of the conflicting reports, it's hard to know who/what to believe. It's just so sad, and I hope they can all come to a resolution soon. I feel bad for Bob, Sr. He really does look very sad and tired in that picture.

 

[goofyshell]

Thanks nutsy. I truly hope the whole rift thing is blown way out of proportion. For everyone's sake.

 

[Nutsy]

Thanks for all the updates, Nutsy. I haven't really been hearing anything about this where I am either.

I don't really know what to say about this situation. With all of the conflicting reports, it's hard to know who/what to believe. It's just so sad, and I hope they can all come to a resolution soon. I feel bad for Bob, Sr. He really does look very sad and tired in that picture.

It really is so hard to say and not wanting to lay blame anywhere, but from the little that Bob said and the way he said it, it would appear that there is more to it than we are hearing. But as he said, he does have a private life and he is entitled to keep it private.

He just seemed to be so sad and so resigned to the fact that the life he knew at the Zoo is now over and he must move on.

It's just so, so sad.

 

[Nutsy]

Bob Irwin gets $1m retirement payment

STEVE Irwin's father Bob has been given a $1 million retirement package after parting ways with the Australia Zoo he founded and made famous by his son.Mr Irwin would also receive an annual pension of about $100,000, the ABC reported.

Mr Irwin has retired from Australia Zoo to a home on a 255ha property near Kingaroy, also part of the package, along with two vehicles and a bulldozer, a statement by the zoo said.

Mr Irwin says he is determined to carry on the Crocodile Hunter's conservation work on his new property.

Mr Irwin appeared on the ABC documentary program, Australian Story, this week and touched on some aspects of the deterioration of his relationship with the zoo's senior management.

"The problem I had was that the management and I didn't agree on certain aspects of Australia Zoo after Steve's passing because most times I went into Australia Zoo, I would have a different sort of opinion with somebody or I may have an idea and it would not be listened to," he said.

"(They were) fairly minor things on their own but I just felt that it was better for everybody concerned if I left Australia Zoo and (my wife) Judy and I and all our friends were able to continue Steve's work the way I believe it should be done."

 

[Nutsy]

Bob Irwin will receive a retirement package worth over $1 million from Australia Zoo following his departure from the venture.

The zoo issued a statement today detailing the package, which will also include a yearly pension of just under $100,000.

Irwin, who started the zoo in 1970, gave late son Steve and wife Terri a 50 percent share of it in 1992.

He has denied a rift between him and Terri caused the departure, telling ABC TV's Australian Story that he didn't agree with where the management was taking the zoo.

"The problem I had was that the management and I didn't agree on certain aspects of Australia Zoo after Steve's passing because most times I went into Australia Zoo, I would have a different sort of opinion with somebody… or I may have an idea and it would not be listened to," Bob said in the interview.

Today's statement said when Bob and late wife Lyn Irwin retired in 1992, they offered the zoo to Steve and Terri for $300,000, a sum that they couldn't afford at the time.

Instead, they all agreed Bob and Lyn would be paid a wage for the rest of their lives.

"When Bob decided to move to a new property, Australia Zoo, under instruction from Terri Irwin, will continue to provide financial assistance to Bob with a retirement package worth over $1 million, plus an ongoing annual pension of $99,840 per year," the statement said.

 

[Nutsy]

Bob said he and his late wife Lynn had given their son and daughter-in-law 50% of the zoo after they were married in 1992.

“When Lynn passed away (in 2000) I wanted Steve and Terri to have it all so I gave the zoo to Steve and Terri,” he explained.

Bob said he had no assets of his own, having poured all of his earnings back into conservation and the zoo, but he had come to an agreement with the current management about his departure.

“Because of my 36 years experience of running the zoo and starting it up and all the rest of it, we’ve agreed on a, I suppose you’d call it some sort of a redundancy package or a pension or whatever you want to call it, that will enable Judy and I to have a house and a property and a small income.”

 

[Nutsy]

The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin went through "a lot of pain and suffering" behind the scenes of his public life, his father says.

"People don't realise just how much he gave of himself," Mr Irwin said of Steve.

"He was always very good in front of the media, and a lot of the pain and suffering didn't show through."

Mr Irwin admitted he was frightened by the media, but said as long as he continued his conservation work, Steve would be happy with him.

"I just feel that if I can live the rest of my life out doing what Steve would actually want me to do, and do that successfully, then I would be prepared to go and shake hands with him again."

He also said Steve would not be bothered by his split with Australia Zoo.

"I honestly don't believe Steve minds where I am," Mr Irwin said.

"I think he'd be more than content as long as he knows that I'm continuing with the work that he'd want me to continue with.

"I don't think he'd care really where I did it, as long as it gets done."

Mr Irwin told the program he had become a disruptive influence at Australia Zoo, but the decision to leave was a difficult one.

"I've obviously put a lot of thought into the decision I made because it affected a lot of people, it's not just me," he said.

"It's the people at the zoo, it's my own personal friends, the wildcare people that I deal with, and it goes on and on.

"But I believe that even though it's better for me and for Judy to start our new move on the property, it's also better for Australia Zoo not to have a disruptive influence."

 

[lucas]

Dh and I watched a Crocodile Hunter episode tonight where Steve was at a wildlife rehabilitation center. It was also a place where he said he and his dad had planted thousands of new trees. He introduced and spoke to Judy, who works with the animals. I thought the name Judy sounded familiar so I came back here to check and sure enough it is his new wife's name. I wonder if it is one and the same?

 

[Nutsy]

Dh and I watched a Crocodile Hunter episode tonight where Steve was at a wildlife rehabilitation center. It was also a place where he said he and his dad had planted thousands of new trees. He introduced and spoke to Judy, who works with the animals. I thought the name Judy sounded familiar so I came back here to check and sure enough it is his new wife's name. I wonder if it is one and the same?

Yep, Judy is the Judy who was working with the animals in that episode. She was friends with Bob and his first wife and it was only in recent years that there was anything romantic between the two of them, they've always been just really close friends, being there for each other.

 

[lucas]

Yep, Judy is the Judy who was working with the animals in that episode. She was friends with Bob and his first wife and it was only in recent years that there was anything romantic between the two of them, they've always been just really close friends, being there for each other.

Glad to hear that. Steve was patting her on the back and the seemed to like her so much. I'm sure he would be happy for them.

 

[Nutsy]

Terri Irwin fights bauxite firm over wildlife reserve


Terri Irwin is fighting to protect the park.


A KEY crocodile research area dedicated to the memory of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is under threat from strip-mining.
The 135,000ha Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula was one of the last places visited by Irwin for his annual crocodile tagging expedition just weeks before he was fatally wounded by a stingray barb in September 2006.

It was bought for $6.3 million last year by the Federal Government to be owned and managed by the Irwin family trust. However, mining company Cape Alumina has lodged mining lease applications targeting more than 50 million tonnes of bauxite within 12,300ha of the reserve.

Terri Irwin, Australia Zoo principal and widow of the wildlife icon, said the reserve's ecological value was irreplaceable and needed to be preserved in order to protect Australian habitat.

Ms Irwin said it was home to three important spring-fed wetlands that provided a critical water source to threatened habitat, provided a permanent flow of water to the Wenlock River, and was home to rare and vulnerable plants and wildlife.

The proposed area for mining on the reserve contains the headwaters of irreplaceable waterways and unique biodiversity which will not recover after mining is finished, she said.

The Wenlock River also supported a critical population of endangered spear-tooth sharks, sawfish and the now-vulnerable estuarine crocodile.
"I am a realist and I understand that mining is an important industry.

However, we have learned over the last 50 years of bauxite mining that it is critical to set aside the most environmentally sensitive areas such as the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve and not consider mining them," she said.
"Responsible mining companies are already doing this as part of developing carbon credit programs."

Cape Alumina's company documents indicated an intention to mine 50-plus million tonnes over 10 years beginning in 2010 with a great part of the mine in the reserve.

Cape Alumina chief executive officer Paul Messenger said yesterday that he agreed areas of sensitivity needed to be preserved and there were no plans to mine any wetlands, only dry bauxite plateaus covered by common vegetation, which would be constantly rehabilitated.

He said his company had started a full environmental impact study of the area last year, which would not be completed until next year, taking in half of the former Bertiehaugh Pastoral Station within the reserve area, plus an adjoining section of Aboriginal land.

Mr Messenger said the company would be conducting extensive consultation and held the view that the project could benefit all stakeholders, especially the Aboriginal community.

 

[Nutsy]

Terri Irwin's private property fortune

Terri Irwin has built a $26 million property empire – all held solely in her own name – while Australia Zoo rakes in millions from grants and donations.

This includes a $6 million property paid for by the former federal government last year, which is now held by Mrs Irwin’s private company.
A two-week investigation by the Daily into the Irwins’ private holdings and Australia Zoo has revealed:

• The former federal government announced it would provide $6 million to help the Irwins purchase a property they had bought three months earlier.

• The state government will build a railway station at Australia Zoo as part of the new CAMCOS rail line servicing the Sunshine Coast and agreed to a land swap to assist the zoo’s plans for expansion.

• Disney Communications Incorporated established an international fund following Steve Irwin’s death to “provide support to Steve’s Australia Zoo in Beerwah, as well as educational support for his children, Bindi and Bob Irwin”.

• Mrs Irwin has outlaid $9.5 million on real estate since January 2007.
Mrs Irwin’s company, Rosette properties Pty Ltd, of which she is sole shareholder, spent $1.3 million last year to purchase the home adjacent to the $3.2 million home she and Steve bought in 2004.

Another of her companies, Silverback Properties Pty Ltd, has outlaid more than $20 million for real estate around Australia Zoo, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, at St George, Emu Creek and in Far North Queensland.
Revelations of the extent of the empire built off the back of Steve Irwin’s conservation efforts comes as rumours persist about the fractured relationship between zoo patriarch Bob Irwin and the new management structure formed after his son’s death.

 

[Nutsy]

Bindi Irwin wins Logie

BINDI Irwin has picked up a Logie for best female talent, dedicating the award to her mum, Terri, and dad, the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.

At just nine-years-old, Bindi edged out competitors including Home and Away's Charlotte Best and Neighbours' Adelaide Kane for her ABC program Bindi: The Jungle Girl.

An excitable Bindi said she was shocked to win.

"This is so exciting. I can't believe it,'' she said on accepting the gong at Melbourne's Crown Entertainment Complex.

"I'd definitely like to dedicate this to my mum and dad, and I would also like to thank everybody out there who helped to watch Bindi: the Jungle Girl.

It's so nice and I'd also like to thank John Stainton, who has helped me all the way through. Thank you very much.''

Terri Irwin said she's so proud of her daughter Bindi's success, saying she was a role model to other kids.

"I think because Bindi is a sincere person who wants to teach through the medium of television, it gives me real hope that we're now focusing on people who are making the world a better place and have a real social awareness,'' Irwin said.

"That's something I think Bindi can really role model to other kids who are starting to look outside of their own personal needs and wanting to know how to fix the planet.

"And Bindi will continue with that for the rest of her life and I'm very proud of her tonight.''

Irwin also said she was confident Bindi was living a happy child's life.

Bindi is home-schooled by her mother and a tutor.

"Seeing her here tonight is like seeing a child at church, they're in their Sunday best and they're not allowed to get it dirty but it doesn't mean the rest of the week they won't play hard,'' Irwin said of her daughter.

"Going to the Logies is not a normal weekend for Bindi. This is certainly a tremendous blessing.''
Irwin said.

 

[Nutsy]

Terri Irwin settles over lawsuit

Australia Zoo’s Terri Irwin has avoided a potentially costly and lengthy legal battle after a multi-million-dollar lawsuit was today settled out of court.

The wife of the late Crocodile Hunter and the zoo were due to go to trial later this year over the lawsuit, involving a complex loan deal with an offshore bank.

The zoo was being sued for $2.5 million and Ms Irwin for $60,000 by debt collection company Alyssa Treasury.

But Melbourne County Court judge Maree Kennedy today ordered the case be dismissed after a confidential agreement was reached out of court between Alyssa Treasury and Australia Zoo, Terri Irwin and seven other unrelated companies.

Judge Kennedy ordered that a security payment of $42,000 paid to the court in March by Alyssa Treasury be paid to Ms Irwin’s solicitors Pointon Partners, who were also acting on behalf of the seven other parties.

 

[Pooh93]

Thank you for all of the articles Nutsy.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

thanks! I appreciate the first hand info!