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Sabina Nowak

Polish scientist

Sabina Nowak (Polish pronunciation: [saˈbi.na nɔvak]; married name Pierużek-Nowak; born 6 June 1959)^[1] is a Polish scientist and wolf expert. She is president of the Association for Nature Wolf (AfN Wolf)^[2] and a member of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.^[3]

Life

In 1983, Nowak graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice with a Master of Science degree in biology.^[4] In her doctoral thesis she described the "Ecology of Wolves". She has been taking care of the wolf in Poland since the mid-1990s. From 1993 to 1998 she coordinated the campaign "For the full protection of the large predators, wolf and lynx" in Poland and a campaign for the protection of the entire Polish part of the primeval forest Białowieża as a national park (Białowieża National Park). In 1998 she was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship.^[5]^[6] From 2001 to 2004 she was head of the Polish census of lynxes and wolves. Since 2000, she has been coordinating German-Polish cooperation on wolves with the German wolf experts Ilka Reinhardt and Gesa Kluth. From 2009 to 2016 she was a member of the Polish State Council for Nature Conservation, where she chaired the Animals Commission from 2014 to 2016.^[7]

2015 Sabina Nowak and Henryk Okarma were speakers at a conference in the Senate "The Future of the Wolf in Poland" concerning the fast growing wolf population in Poland.^[8]^[9]

Publications

Scholia has a profile for Sabina Nowak (Q6526676).

National Strategy for Wolf Protection and Management. 1998
Instructions for Livestock Owners - Methods for Livestock Protection against Wolf Attacks. 1999
On the trail of the wolves. 2000
Current report - Wolf and lynx censuses in Polish forests and national parks. 2001
Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek: Wolf Protection in Poland. The Wolf Conservation Association, Godziszka, 2002, ISBN 83-911331-7-6
Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek: Livestock Guarding Dogs in the Western Part of the Polish Carpathians
Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska: Patterns of wolf Canis lupus predation on wild and domestic ungulates in the Western Carpathian Mountains (S Poland)
Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek: Animals and roads. Methods of mitigating the negative impact of roads on wildlife
Maciej Szewczyk, Sabina Nowak et al.: Dynamic range expansion leads to establishment of a new, genetically distinct wolf population in Central Europe
Sabina Nowak, Robert Mysłajek: Wolves in Western Poland Distribution and Ecology of the Animal Species Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 2017.