Steve Irwin Quotes

In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

The poachers were using heavy weapons. It was a real war. I realize this is what I wanted to do.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

Mississippians for the most part appreciate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management of our wildlife refuges and other natural resources.

There never has been before and never will be again another Steve Irwin.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.

The truth is that some of Mississippi's greatest advocates for conservation and habitat protection are the sportsmen and hunters. Our state's beautiful and abundant natural lands are enhanced, protected and paid for in large part by those who enjoy hunting.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.

The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.