"These Hitlers use the camouflage of science to make money out of animals… So whenever they murder our animals and call it sustainable use, I'll fight it. Since when has killing a wild animal, eating it or wearing it, ever saved a species?
There are people who butt out their cigarettes in gorilla-paw ashtrays, with wastepaper baskets that were once elephant feet, who have ivory ornaments… who wear cheetah fur. Don't buy these things! Then there'll be no market and the animals won't be killed.
We have domesticated livestock raised for consumption and perfectly good fake leather and fur, so why must we kill wild animals to satisfy the macabre taste of some rich person?"- Steve Irwin
(22 September 1962 - 4 September 2006)
Conservation with action was the way Steve Irwin did his job.
From wrestling alligators on television, buying huge tracts of land for conservation, giving candid interviews on talk shows, to managing Australia Zoo; he didn't just preach conservation, he was conservation.
While the expedient actions of our nation's politicians continue to dumbfound us with their blatantly ludicrous projects, Steve showed us all you didn't need to be a man-in-office to get things done.
You didn't even need RM 400.00 business suits or speak proper English.
Steve Irwin heralded a change in filming nature. While Sir David Attenborough was content with walking through jungles entertaining us with the stories of its denizens, Steve got involved with the stories.
With his death, Mother Nature has lost one of its most outspoken voice.
Sure, good old Steve and his conservation groups are enjoying the greatest windfall ever from his sudden death.
It won't last.
We will soon forget the man, forget the mission, and remember we have wars to fight, forests to burn, mosques to build...
Little wonder why the Perak and Sabah State Government can still carry out unsupervised and approved deforestation practises.
It is a sad fact that no matter how many Steve Irwins are born, people will be more preoccupied with the bust size of the next Hollywood starlet, the littlests squabbles of our neighbours, and the love scandals of our close circle of friends.
It sickens me:
The reason: You might never see it again.
Dead of the Week: 22(22 September 1962 - 4 September 2006)
Conservation with action was the way Steve Irwin did his job.
From wrestling alligators on television, buying huge tracts of land for conservation, giving candid interviews on talk shows, to managing Australia Zoo; he didn't just preach conservation, he was conservation.
While the expedient actions of our nation's politicians continue to dumbfound us with their blatantly ludicrous projects, Steve showed us all you didn't need to be a man-in-office to get things done.
You didn't even need RM 400.00 business suits or speak proper English.
Steve Irwin heralded a change in filming nature. While Sir David Attenborough was content with walking through jungles entertaining us with the stories of its denizens, Steve got involved with the stories.
With his death, Mother Nature has lost one of its most outspoken voice.
Sure, good old Steve and his conservation groups are enjoying the greatest windfall ever from his sudden death.
It won't last.
We will soon forget the man, forget the mission, and remember we have wars to fight, forests to burn, mosques to build...
Little wonder why the Perak and Sabah State Government can still carry out unsupervised and approved deforestation practises.
It is a sad fact that no matter how many Steve Irwins are born, people will be more preoccupied with the bust size of the next Hollywood starlet, the littlests squabbles of our neighbours, and the love scandals of our close circle of friends.
It sickens me:
- When the people elected never give a thought to the welfare of the environment until it's too late;
- When the people choose a neighbouring country's concrete safari over their own parks;
- When we stop seeing.
The reason: You might never see it again.
Total Dead (Since 12th Jan 2006): 741
1 comment:
i propose we drink a toast to the good man's memory, and death be to the idiots who take pot shots at dead people.
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