"Crikey"

The world has lost a great animal conservationist this weekend. Steve Irwin, was passionate in the protection of many of the worlds threatened animals. If you have ever watched him you would know that he was crazy, fun-loving guy. I send my condolences to his wife, and his two kids. Lets hope that his efforts of protecting animals will continue.

On another note I came across an blog entry on Digg last night, it was created by Jason Calcanis from Netscape fame. The title of the entry was "The Discovery Channel Killed Steve Irwin". If you read the article he basically says that because the Discovery Channel was trying to get higher ratings they get these people like Steve Irwin to do crazy, dangerous stunts. Well I think that is total B.S.

Steve Irwin used Discovery as much as they used him for ratings. He used that medium to spread his message about the necessity of crocs in the environment. Steve would have been wrestling, capturing, and saving crocs and other dangerous animals, with or without a TV show.

The Discovery Channel didn't create "naturalists' that have to risk their lives to be credible" Steve the TV persona was created by the love and passion of the fans that watched him on his show in Australia long before The Discovery Channel picked him up. That just sent his message across the world instead of in his own backyard.

The bottow line is that there is no one to blame for Steve's untimely death. Thats why they call it an accident.

Picture: Australian television presenter Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, lifts up a snake onstage at Nickelodeon's 15th Annual Kids' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/AP, Lucy Nicholson