![]() ![]() This plan apparently did not go down well with Bob, who felt that Australia Zoo should focus on conservation rather than follow a commercial path and become a ‘circus’. top tourist destination with a Disneyland feel’. Steve Irwins parents Bob and Lyn opened the Australia Zoo in June 1970 under the name Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park. When Bob left the zoo for good in 2008 – two years after the death of his famous son, Steve ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin – his daughter-in-law Terri was planning a five-year expansion ‘to make it the zoo of Australia’. Together, they had three children, a daughter, Joy, son Steve, and a. Several reports from the time of Bob’s departure claim that he was concerned that the Sunshine Coast tourist attraction would become “too commercial” – and even feared that the then nine-year-old Bindi would be pushed into child stardom. Irwin married Lyn Hakainsson, a maternity nurse who was killed in a car accident in 2000. The Irwin family’s feud began 13 years ago when Bob Snr left Australia Zoo because he feared that the game reserve he founded in 1970 was becoming a ‘circus’. ![]() When the family moved, Bob and Lyn Irwin started the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. Bob Irwin was very interested in reptiles (a type of animal that includes snakes and crocodiles). The family moved to Queensland in 1970, when Irwin was 8. His father was a wildlife expert (herpetology), and his mother, Lyn, was a wildlife rehabilitator. Irwins mother and father were Lyn and Bob Irwin was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As a child, he grew up in Queensland with his parents, surrounded by crocodiles and other reptiles. The 20-year-old continues to live and work at the zoo with her mom, Terri, who is the new zoo owner, and younger brother, Robert. Bob and Lyn Irwin, his parents, give birth to him. It is a rare public statement from Mr Irwin following his 2008 spat with daughter-in-law Terri. It was opened by her grandparents Bob and Lyn Irwin. Her girl: Terri Irwin looked emotional as she hugged her daughter Bindi at Australia Zoo on her 21st birthday on Wednesday – 13 years after Steve’s tragic death ![]()
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