"Croc hunter" was powerful voice for conservation
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With his trademark cry of "Crikey!"   and his ebullient persona, television naturalist Steve Irwin   was an atypical but powerful voice for animal conservation,   wildlife experts said on Tuesday.
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BRISBANE, Australia -- Steve Irwin, the rousing Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the ``Crocodile Hunter," was killed today by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said.
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Two wildlife champions, Michel Masozera, Rwanda country director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Ali Kaka, executive director of Kenya's East African Wild Life Society, are this year's winners of the National Geographic Society/Buffett Award for Leadership in African Conservation.
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Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
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LOS ANGELES - Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau said Tuesday that while he mourns the recent death of &quot;The Crocodile Hunter,&quot; Steve Irwin, he disagrees with Irwin's hands-on approach to nature television.
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Thousands of Australians will be able to  farewell "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin at a public memorial to  be held at the "Crocoseum" in his beloved Australia Zoo, the TV  naturalist's wife said on Wednesday.
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A UN meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity&#39;s closest living relatives, the orang-utan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Steve Irwin died doing what he loved best, getting too close to one of the dangerous animals he dedicated his life to protecting with an irrepressible, effervescent personality that propelled him to global fame as television's "Crocodile Hunter."
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Australian &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin will get a final send-off in the &quot;Crocoseum&quot; of his beloved family zoo next week, his widow revealed in her first comments since his death.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.
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Aborigine Jackie Huggins remembers when she was regarded as part of Australia's native wildlife.
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A year after Steve Irwin's death, Animal Planet is airing a weeklong celebration of the exuberant "Crocodile Hunter" whose forays among wildlife were a staple of the channel.
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Wildlife didn't scare Steve Irwin. Most wildlife, anyway.   "Parrots make me nervous," he once said, adding, "but I still love   them."
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She said the system had paved the way for poachers, illegal loggers, charcoal burners and even drug barons. &quot;Large tracts of forestland have been converted into farmlands, thereby destroying local biodiversity
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By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent  Richard Lee Buck ~ 1929-2006  Richard Lee Buck felt so strongly about conservation and land preservation that he raised his family in a nature preserve.
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Some owners set them loose instead of bringing them to crocodile refuges. But the pet trade helps wild crocs, too.