Happy Steve Irwin Day!

This date has officially been designated Steve Irwin Day. It's dedicated to the life and hard work of Australian-born wildlife expert Steve Irwin. He was popularly known as "The Crocodile Hunter". This special designation is all about things that were of the highest importance to Irwin: family, wildlife, conservation and fun

Born on 2/22/1962, in Essendon, one of the many suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, he grew up surrounded by Australian wildlife. His mother Lyn cared for injured animals, such as snakes, kangaroos, lizards and birds. his family moved to Beerwah, Queensland in 1970. Both of his parents opened a reptil park, which is now the Australia Zoo. He became known as "The Crocodile Hunter" and had a program of the same name on the Animal Planet channel. This program taught everyone, from little kids to older adults, all about the wildlife that inhabits this planet of our. Sadly on 9/4/2006, while on a diving excursion off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland, he was filming a new program when he didn't know that he had startled a sting ray. The sting ray shot its barbed, venomous tail into Irwin's chest, piercing his heart. He died from cardiac arrest