Sabina Nowak


Sabina Nowak is a Polish scientist and wolf expert. She is president of the Association for Nature Wolf and a member of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.

Life

In 1983, Nowak graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice with a Master of Science degree in biology. 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. In 1998 she was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship. 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.
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.

Publications

National Strategy for Wolf Protection and Management. 1998Instructions for Livestock Owners - Methods for Livestock Protection against Wolf Attacks. 1999On the trail of the wolves. 2000Current 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,
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  • Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska: '
  • Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek: '
  • Maciej Szewczyk, Sabina Nowak et al.: '
  • Sabina Nowak, Robert Mysłajek: Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 2017.