Stephen Robert Irwin was born to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Victoria in February 1962. Bob Irwin was a keen enthusiast of reptiles and moved his family to Queensland in 1970 to start a small reptile park at Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast. Australia Zoo became a true family business, flourishing until 1991 when Bob & Lyn retired, turning over management to their son, Steve.

Living in the Zoo, Steve grew up with animals of all kinds, taking part in the animals daily feeding, care and maintenance. His 6th birthday present was what he had always wanted – his very own scrub python! It was 3.6m (12ft) long and while most other children were opening cans of pet food for their cats or dogs, Steve was out catching fish and hunting rodents to feed to his crocodiles and snakes.

Bob taught the young Steve everything there was to know about reptiles – even teaching his nine-year-old how to jump in and catch crocodiles in the rivers of North Queensland at night. This father and son’s proud boast is that every crocodile in their Zoo (the numbering some 100 animals) was either caught by their bare hands or bred and raised in their Zoo.

As he grew older Steve followed in his father’s footsteps and volunteered his services to the Queensland Governments East Coast Crocodile Management program which saw him spend years living on his own in the mosquito infested creeks, rivers and mangroves of North Queensland catching huge crocodiles single-handed. His record of successful catches is still staggering to this day.

Since 1991, Australia Zoo has flourished and expanded under Steve’s guidance. In 1990 a chance reunion with his friend, television producer John Stainton, filming in the Zoo for a TV commercial, gave Steve the opportunity to show his diverse animal talents to the world when they both took a punt and make the first documentary, "The Crocodile Hunter" in 1992.

The tremendous success of this one program quickly encouraged the making of more and so over the next 3 years, 10 one hour episodes were made and on television screens all over the world. Steve has now filmed over 70 episodes of "The Crocodile Hunter", 53 episodes of "Croc Files", 43 episodes of “Croc Diaries” and his next television series is called “The New Breed Vets” for release in 2005.

Steve has the greatest respect and understanding for all animals – something that has been instilled into him by his family for all of his life – and he's proud to share his passion with everyone who visits his Zoo and with his five hundred million viewers world-wide.

In June 1992, Steve married Terri Raines from Oregon USA. They had met a few months earlier when Terri visited the Zoo whilst on holidays in Australia. They now spend their lives together educating people everywhere to care for all of our world’s wildlife.

On Monday 1st December 2003, Steve and Terri became very proud parents to their second child, Robert Clarence Irwin. Robert, or ‘Bob’ as they call him, was a gorgeous 7 pound 4 ounce baby boy. In Bob’s short journey so far he has become a great younger brother for Bindi and a fascination to all the Australia Zoo crew. We all look forward to Bindi and Robert being the next generation of ‘Wildlife Warriors’.

On July 24, 1998, Steve and Terri Irwin became the proud parents of a little girl, Bindi Sue. With such animal loving parents it is no surprise that Bindi loves nothing more than running around the Zoo. Snakes, dingoes, koalas and yes even crocodiles, make this little girl go wild with excitement!

Bindi is part of the Australia Zoo team and even has her daily chores. After the important tasks of breakfast and dressing into her Zoo uniform, including her work boots, it is off to work at Australia Zoo.

Upon arrival at work Bindi wastes no time in getting down and dirty – literally. Harriet the Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise is the first animal on her list that must be thoroughly inspected. Harriet and Bindi’s relationship is a match made in heaven, they truly love one another. The next task Bindi must complete is examining the Shingle back Skinks. Now these little critters are Bindi’s favorite animals at Australia Zoo. As Bindi enters the enclosure she quickly proceeds to check that all are present. Digging sand, lifting rocks and even moving small logs is nothing for Bindi when it comes to checking on her friends. Oh yeah, it’s crocodile time! Now is the most important part of the day, Bindi must go to the crocodile demonstration just to keep an eye on Mum and Dad – you never know what they might get up to! Bindi carefully keeps watch as mum tells the crowd great stories and dad feeds Agro, the big male saltwater crocodile. The life of a zoo keeper is very tiring, so Bindi decides it’s time to make her way to the kangaroo and koala paddock to unwind. Snuggling up with a warm fluffy koala is time well spent. Bindi is a real animal lover just like her mum and dad. She knows and recognizes all of the animals and she can even make all of their relevant noises.

Although Bindi is only young she has traveled all over the world to many different countries, and met many famous people. In the spring of ’99 Bindi made her first T.V. appearance on the Rosie O’Donnell show. Rosie and Bindi became instant pals and had a great time together.

As the daughter of the Crocodile Hunter, Bindi is involved in the filming of ‘ The Crocodile Hunter’ and ‘Croc Files’ series. Her first big film shoot was with rattlesnakes in Texas when she was just two weeks old!

Bindi spends a lot of time with animals so to reflect the adventurous nature of Bindi’s everyday antics a new children’s clothing range was designed. “Bindi Wear” is durable and made to outlast even the most active child. Featuring a cute crocodile logo, Bindi Wear comes in alternate khaki colors. Bindi Wear is 100% Australian made and is available exclusively at Australia Zoo.

Bindi Sue Irwin as you can see is a very busy little girl. Her life is always full of new and exciting things but she loves nothing more than spending time with her Mum, Dad and little brother Robert. Oh, what a life!