Why don't I appreciate Steve Irwin

He was an Australian but his popularity was admittedly universal. His crocodile hunter series of animal documentaries attracted millions of viewers worldwide.

Steve Irwin was killed in September off Australia’s Northeast coast after hit by the serrated barb from a string ray’s tail during a diving expedition for a television shoot. He was apparently grappling with string-ray, which reacted in self defense. The barb pierced his chest and stilled his heart.
It’s a sad thing but as an animal lover I will not salute Steve Irwin’s memory.

His bio-data would suggest that 44-year old Irwin was a first rate naturalist and wild life crusader, even a global ambassador of conversation. His mission he proclaimed, was to make wild life environs palpable at close quarters, not something to be admires like a pretty picture.

He trespassed into the habitats of all kinds of animals, manhandled and bullied then with a repulsive gusto and then topped it all by startling the distressed creatures with shrieking endearments. What was he really aiming at? Is it for fame …

In one of his documentaries to demonstrate the camels, he chased them several miles and finally he started hurting one calf. Is it a four legged variation of WWF bout!

Several of the fans of Steve Irwin went on a revenge killing spree leaving a trail of dead string-rays. For a man who is said to have lived for animals there could be no greater failure of his life-mission.