Jindřich Petrlík

He is a co-founder and board member of the Czech NGO Arnika, program manager of its Toxics and Waste Programme.

He studied physical geography at the Faculty of Natural sciences of the Masaryk University in Brno.

[1] In 1979 he founded civil society initiative called Team Bořena, an informal association of students focused on archaeology, history and environmental protection.

In September 1989, he founded Děti Země (Children of the Earth) with a group of other activists in Prague as an independent civic initiative for the environmental protection.

[2] In the Arnika Association and the IPEN network, he focused on the monitoring of dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants and the assessment of environmental contamination by these substances in exposed locations.