Bindi Irwin Furious Over Clinton Essay Snub

Wildlife campaigner Bindi Irwin has withdrawn an essay she submitted to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-journal after she claimed it was edited to remove lines about over-population.

The 14-year-old wrote the 1,000-word essay which was due to be published in the December issue of the journal entitled Go Wild Coming Together For Conservation.

She had been asked to write the piece on why she had chosen to dedicate her life to wildlife conservation as part of Mrs Clinton's endangered species initiative.

But she said after submitting it, the Department of State returned it for final approval with large parts edited out.

In the essay, she wrote: "I believe that most problems in the world today, such as climate change, stem from one immense problem which seems to be the 'elephant in the room' that no-one wants to talk about.

Hillary Clinton's Department of State is thought to have edited the essay

"This problem is our ever expanding human population. We are experiencing Earth's sixth mass extinction right now.

"I must ask the question, how is it possible that our fragile planet can sustain these masses of people?"

The teenager used the analogy of throwing a party and having too many guests arrive to explain her point of view.

But she then pulled the essay from the publication after it was apparently edited.

Her mother, Terri Irwin, told news.com.au: "It's interesting that she was asked to write an essay about the environment and included the consideration of population and they returned her essay edited and completely edited that out.

"So Bindi wrote to Hillary Clinton's organisation and said 'what happened to freedom of speech? This is my opinion and I don't want that edited out'."

Bindi, daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, has followed in her father's footsteps in championing wildlife conservation since his death in 2006.

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