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
editIn 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
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- 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.
External links
edit- Sabina Nowak Talk on video: From the carnivore journal
References
edit- ^ Sabina Pierużek Nowak − Profil Osoby z KRS
- ^ ResearchGate: Sabina Nowak - President of Association for Nature "Wolf"
- ^ Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe: Who we are
- ^ "Nowa Nauka Polska". nauka-polska.pl. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ^ Ashoka:Sabina Pieruzek-Nowak
- ^ Ashoka: Sabina Pierużek-Nowak - Date of election Poland 1998
- ^ Stowarzyszenie Dla Natury "Wilk"
- ^ Przyszłość wilka w Polsce
- ^ IFAW: Neue Zahlen: Mehr Wolfsrudel in Westpolen