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Zoo nabs Steve Irwin name in Tanzania
Posted: Thursday April 10, 2008 8:33 AM BT
A tribute, or a smart marketing ploy? A so-called conservationist in Africa has started a zoo and named it after the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. James Morobo, 54, has set up the private zoo next to a plot of land near the city of Dar es Salaam for tourists who flock to Tanzania for its wildlife.
 International media personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin is shown here. Irwin died in far north Queensland, Australia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2006. Irwin, known as The Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb to his heart while filming a new television series.
"I have established this zoo because I have realised that the people in the city are interested in looking at wild animals," Mr Morobo said. "I have named it Steve Irwin Zoo after the Australian Crocodile Hunter because he was a courageous hunter of crocodiles and lover of all wild animals." Mr Morobo says he has invested more than $54,000 in the zoo, and has been promised international help to lift the zoo to international standards. Apart from the inevitable crocodile, he says so far he has acquired a leopard, a hyena, two chimpanzees, a pair of baboons, a zebra, a python and various birds. Source: http://www.news.com.au/
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