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Bob Irwin

Bob Irwin suffered a heart attack in March, and has used the opportunity to re-evaluate his priorities. The father of the late Steve Irwin says he wants to focus on environmental conservation and caring for injured wildlife.

One area of animal welfare that concerns him is Australia’s wild dogs, known as dingoes. Current laws prohibit people from feeding the dogs, citing that feeding them makes them less fearful of humans and more likely to attack. But Irwin is disturbed by the numbers of thin and malnourished dogs he sees and wants other options to ensure their health and survival.

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Bob Irwin, father of the late Steve Irwin known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” on Animal Planet, has recorded a message supporting Australia’s kangaroos at a recent fundraiser in Sydney.

According to the Australian Society for Kangaroos, the kangaroo industry killed approximately 3.6 million kangaroos in 2008 to export meat and supply skins to shoe companies in Europe, Asia and the United States.

The Society also cites recent data showing that in areas allowing commercial kangaroo hunting, the species is experiencing a “quasi-extinction,” (less than 5 per square kilometre), putting their numbers in jeopardy.

Irwin has spoken out against the industry before, when it was announced export to China would begin in 2010.

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The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin‘s father, Bob Irwin, is asking China not to import kangaroo meat, as the industry is endangering the animal.

Russia has already banned kangaroo meat imports, and now Australia is looking to Asian countries to export the product, and is expected to start supplying China in the first part of 2010.

“Our kangaroos are in a position at the moment where you would describe their numbers as critical, I believe,” Bob Irwin said. “We are just trying to get the message across to China that it is definitely not necessary to eat kangaroo meat. It is unhygienic for a start and we would not eat their pandas, mate, so why should they eat our kangaroos?”

It is estimated there are 25 million kangaroos across Australia, but some conservationists argue that numbers are far lower.

via voanews.com

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