Kavous Seyed-Emami (Persian: کاووس سیدامامی; December 24, 1953 – February 8, 2018) was a Canadian academic and conservationist.

[1] In February 2018, Iran's judiciary said that he killed himself while in detention in Evin Prison, Tehran, because of the evidence against him in a spying case.

[9] Professor Kavous Seyed-Emami along with seven other environmentalists and fellow members of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation was arrested on February 6, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

[10] Professor Seyed-Emami, the founder of PWHF, died under suspicious circumstances in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran two days after his arrest.

According to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), one of the Tehran-based lawyers representing the family has revealed that the autopsy result was never made public but a preliminary state medical examiner’s report "showed evidence of an injection on his skin" as well as “bruises on different parts of the body.”[11]