Sabina Nowak (; married name Pierużek-Nowak; born 6 June 1959) is a Polish scientist and wolf expert. She is president of the Association for Nature Wolf (AfN Wolf) and a member of the
Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe The Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE) is a working group of the IUCN Commission on the Conservation of Species. and a Non-governmental organization. President of the LCIE is the Secretary of the IUCN Wolf Specialist Group Luigi Boitani. ...
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Life
In 1983, Nowak graduated from the
University of Silesia in Katowice
The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland.
The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergra ...
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
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...
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
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). 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
Ilka Reinhardt (born 1966 in the GDR) is a German biologist and wolf expert. She is together with Gesa Kluth Founder and director of LUPUS - Institute for Wolf Monitoring and Research in Germany and the Freundeskreis freilebender Wölfe. She was ...
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..
IFAW
Ifo is a town in south-western Nigeria near Lagos.
Transport
It is served by a junction station on the national railway network.
See also
* Railway stations in Nigeria
Railway stations in Nigeria include:
Maps
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Neue Zahlen: Mehr Wolfsrudel in Westpolen
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Publications
* ''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,
* 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
* Sabina Nowak Talk on video
From the carnivore journal
References
1959 births
Polish biologists
Living people
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