There’s a lot of research behind the scenes that you don’t get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.
When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.
The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.
If you can’t excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?
Statistically there’s only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They’re on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it’ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it’s not even funny.
No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you’re confronted with violence.
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That’s their job. I don’t know why that is. They’ve nearly torn my nose off. I’ve had some really bad parrot bites.
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the pest.
I’m a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I’m just fine with that.
Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.