Bron Discoverynews
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Irwin and his wife used money from their Crocodile Hunter earnings to buy wilderness lands in Fiji, Tasmania, the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and the United States.
In particular, Irwin was devoted to purchasing, and then salvaging, wilderness tracts in his homeland of Australia. There he bought a large region west of Brisbane near the Murray-Darling Basin.
He also purchased land near his Australia Zoo in Beerwah to save the habitats of tree-dwelling marsupials known as gliders, as well as wallabies, snakes, platypuses and other creatures, many native to Australia.
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service said Irwin expressed an interest in helping its population recovery efforts for the northern hairy-nosed wombat.
Irwin also took on smaller projects, such as working with farmers to save an endangered species of python called the woma. His zoo actually paid farmers to report information about the snakes rather than kill them, as was once widely done.
Al het geld wat hij alleen al aan de serie verdiende (zo'n 20 miljoen per jaar) ging tot op de laatste cent naar wildlife conservation projecten. Hij woonde zelf een een normaal huis bij de dierentuin, en elke cent ging op aan de natuur.
Wie denken die Gaus en die Lommers wel dat ze zijn? Een stelletje mafkezen die na 20 jaar ook weer eens wat mogen zeggen in de media. Zij zouden een heel groot voorbeeld aan Steve kunnen nemen.