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Speaker 1: Jerzy and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: We love catching up with our next guest, Robert Irwin,

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Speaker 2: has spent his life trying to make the world a

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Speaker 2: better place for wildlife in the environment, and Australia Zoo

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Speaker 2: has a new cheata habitat, Cheatah Grasslands, a beautiful home

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Speaker 2: for the cheaters and a beautiful way for the visitors

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Speaker 2: to admire them and to learn about their conservation efforts.

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Speaker 2: And he joins us now, Robert Irwin, Hi, get a.

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Speaker 1: How's it going, guys. Good to hear from you.

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Speaker 3: Always great to talk to you. The cheetah it's the

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Speaker 3: fastest land animal. How many k's can it run?

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Speaker 1: Out? Mate? It is absolutely, I mean one of the

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Speaker 1: most incredible creatures on the face of the earth. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're talking sportscar type stuff. I mean they are

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Speaker 1: incredibly fast, one hundred kilometers an hour, just grease lightning.

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Speaker 1: But they're also such charismatic creatures. I mean, you spend

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Speaker 1: time with cheaters and you can't help but just fall

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Speaker 1: in love with them. And that's what we're so excited

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Speaker 1: about with this new habitat is Cheatah conservation what it's

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Speaker 1: all about here. So it's getting these creatures into people's hearts.

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Speaker 1: And finally, I mean after having cheaters and implementing cheat

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Speaker 1: conservation over the last two decades, we can finally have

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Speaker 1: guests experiencing them firsthand. Mate. It's an exciting day for

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Speaker 1: the whole zoo crew and our family, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean this is the first time you've

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Speaker 2: been able to do that? What's been Why hasn't that

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Speaker 2: happened before? Are they really hard to breed? What's the story?

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Speaker 1: No, it's a good question. Well, you know, with all

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Speaker 1: the animals we've got at Australia Zoo, we really tried

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Speaker 1: to have a conservation initiative set up before people actually

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Speaker 1: see them in a habitat in the zoo itself. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we recently had our beautiful samata and elephants

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Speaker 1: for guests to experience, but first we spent about ten

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Speaker 1: years helping to construct an elephant hospital in Sumatra. Same

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Speaker 1: thing with these cheaters. You know, Dad originally got cheaters

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Speaker 1: decades ago, a long long time ago, when I was

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Speaker 1: I mean knee high to a grasshopper, and we wanted

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Speaker 1: to make sure we were doing something in the wild

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Speaker 1: for them. So we have an amazing anti poaching patrol.

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Speaker 1: The Black Members was what they called their amazing anti

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Speaker 1: poaching all women team that go out and help conserve cheaters.

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Speaker 1: And we also help with an Anatolian shepherd dog program

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Speaker 1: where dogs are actually on the frontline protecting livestock from

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Speaker 1: cheetas so that farmers don't go out and shoot them.

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Speaker 1: So there's a few different ways we protect them in

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Speaker 1: the wild. And we had this really well established. Our

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Speaker 1: family of cheaters were really well established established, and we

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Speaker 1: went you know what, this is the perfect time. Our

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Speaker 1: guests were keen to see them, and it was a

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Speaker 1: dream that Dad actually had in his business plan for

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Speaker 1: the zoo. This was part of his plan for years

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Speaker 1: and after he passed away it kind of was pushed

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Speaker 1: aside a little bit. But we've reinvigorated it. We've created

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Speaker 1: the best cheetah habitat on the face of the earth.

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Speaker 1: Not that I'm biased, but it is really world class.

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Speaker 1: It's a slice of Kenya basically, it's just a piece

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Speaker 1: of the African savannah here in Australia. It's really amazing

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Speaker 1: and I reckon Dad would be stoked with it.

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Speaker 2: Oh brilliant, And what kind of preaches are the cheaters

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Speaker 2: apart from being fast, what's enigmatic about them? They've got

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Speaker 2: amazing eyeliner.

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Speaker 1: Oh they do.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they are.

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Speaker 1: The most incredible characters and just have got so much energy.

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Speaker 1: I remember this is a classic example of why cheaters

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Speaker 1: are so much fun to be around. So back in

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Speaker 1: Dad's day, I just love this story so much. He

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Speaker 1: would actually have an old motorbike. Right, he'd fire up

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Speaker 1: the motorbike, he'd get in to the big cheeter off

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Speaker 1: display habitat, you know where they're behind the scenes, and

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Speaker 1: he'd get in there with his motorbike. He'd open up

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Speaker 1: the gates and he'd read it as fast as he could.

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Speaker 1: But he actually would tie a plush toy from the

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Speaker 1: back of the motorbike, so the cheaters would chase him

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Speaker 1: on the motorbike one hundred and k an hour after

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Speaker 1: this toy, and it was just the best enrichment ever.

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Speaker 1: They absolutely loved it. But there was one time where

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Speaker 1: they caught up to the motorbike, they actually grabbed the toy.

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Speaker 1: It really reather back into the wheel into the spokes,

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Speaker 1: and he endoed and the cheetah caught straight up to him,

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Speaker 1: and the cheetah was so excited it grabbed him and

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Speaker 1: then sort of didn't really quite know what to do

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Speaker 1: and then just started playing, you know. So they're very playful,

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Speaker 1: they're very easy to get along with, beautiful nature, just fun, energetic.

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Speaker 1: But mate, I tell you what, breathtaking and powerful, powerful cats.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of great memories with cheaters and it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: they are one of a kind animal, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to be doing that these days.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be any motorbike rides in the Cheeta Habitat, Brendan,

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Speaker 1: thank you. That could be.

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Speaker 3: That could be a thing. I've got a high and

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Speaker 3: that thing goes pretty quick. Well, mate, Robert, it's always

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Speaker 3: great to toys. You say hi to the clan for us.

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Speaker 2: Let's give our love to the family.

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Speaker 3: Cheatter Habitat and Strazoo Cheetah Grasslands is now open plan

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Speaker 3: trip today australiaszo dot com dot are you for the

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Speaker 3: first time ever. It's nice to hang out with some Cheetahs.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thanks guys, Good on you, good on your

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Speaker 1: rob