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I am genuinely concerned that it is always Shaun who produces these photos.

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Thats what I like about this site, start a thread and anything can happen



Actually Steve was in Timor whilst I was there. He was rescuing some crocs (I did see one croc kept in real shit conditions). Good ole Steve made a show about his time in Timor, he said the army got him in as he's the only one that could do the job . That struck me as funny as there are proberly a dozen blokes in the NT that could have done the same job and with a lot less fuss as well.

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You really do need to get out more , babe...

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Tell me bout it


Entertaining site this.

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Savage East Timor Dog. Alot of them looked like dingo's.

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Down the beach, Sabre looks happy hey!

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Love in action

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Oh no! Forget about the Iraq prison photos. Now we are going to have a national "controversary" about the evil deeds done in Timor.

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Cute rats tortured by Aussies in Timor after drug fueled sex orgy

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There is not doubt, whatsoever, that the man is a total wanker and a tosser - and a fraud. Did any of you guys see the show he did on the Zambezi with a large number of crocodiles feeding on a hippo carcass. And Steve the Wanker was going on about how all the camera crew's lives were in his hands and that they all had to do exactly as he said or their lives would be in danger? I'd bet vital parts of my anatomy that there was an armed PH on site who was really responsible for the safety of the crew.... and not our 'hero'.

And in the same episode Steve, our hero, wanders off into the African bush at night armed with a Dolphin torch and, lo and behold, he finds a big male lion and has a 'close encounter' with this beast - pity the lion is filmed in a huge spotlight and not illuminated by a Dolphin torch. Makes one wonder if that scene was real at all!

And while we are in Africa, with out intrepid hero, there is the time he corners a large cobra in an acacia and then proceeds to torment the snake for an extended time and then remarks, as if it is a surprise, something to the effect "Crikey, this fellas reeeaaally angry!" Of course he was - you would be too if some tosser pestered the daylights out of you (come to think of it, I get reeeaaally angry everytime I see the twit on TV!). You notice that Steve never takes on really dangerous snakes like mambas or taipans. Instead he picks on cobras which are known to be slow striking snakes (which is why snake charmers use them!) and red-bellied blacks and the like.

However, you really have to take your hat off to him for his marketing and he is worth a lot more money than I every will be worth but, a conservationist and naturalist he is not! With him it is not about the animals it is about the dollars.

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Damn must be hard to be an expert on the guy!!!

Funny thing is I actually know Steve. I met him through my job of the time and I formed the opinion that he is quite happy to put his money where his mouth is with regards conservation.
Significant amounts of the money he has made has gone into buying various properties to protect habitat like mulga areas etc.

Further he has contributed to research, for instance at his own cost he caught (with permit) some mangrove monitors in FNQ from which he undertook a captive breeding program. All progeny and the adults were released at his own cost. As far as having papers with his name to them....does any amateur herpitologist? Not of any real value they don't. Papers are done by zoologists who have scientific research backgrounds.

BTW I have been with him when he has worked with tapians. And I also have seen footage of him working a large black mamba inside a hut in Africa. Believe me he is an extremely experienced reptile handler and actually a very personable person to be around.

So basically you can have yoru opinions but try and base them on some fact before you start spruiking on as an expert eh

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Craig,

So just one question.

Is Steve Urwin anti-hunting and anti-gun?

After all this is a hunting and shooting forum.

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Not that he made me aware of. He has no problems with shooting ferals. He didn't much like my suggestions that they should licence cull mud gecko's (aka crocs). He has a real passion for those things (which I can't understand)

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Bakes, I think your butt is going to haunt you for a long, long time

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A tosser is the same, Ann.

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If the bugger (Bakes says we can't use noughty words no more)would only tone down his mannerisms to a realistic level then we would all feel more comfortable about saying that he is one of us.

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Greatest wildlife warrior???? There are plenty of people out there doing REAL work for wildlife around the world in conditions that could best be described as primitive and they earn a mere pittance and get no publicity at all. And how many game scouts in Africa have had to shoot it out with poachers to save truly endangered animals and how many have been killed? I would suggest that it is people like these who are the real 'warriors' of conservation.

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Craig,

Sorry, but you haven't convinced me at all - the man is still a wanker and I have yet to see anything worthwhile on any of his shows except a great deal of irresponsible grandstanding.

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Nitro
I spoke to some US Marines the other day, they think he's a wanker as well

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