Jindřich Petrlík
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Petrlík was born on 19 November 1961 Teplice, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Bílina. He studied physical geography at the Faculty of Natural sciences of the Masaryk University in Brno.[1]
Activity in the civil society organizations
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.[3][4] On 29 September 2001, together with five other former members of the Children of the Earth, he laid the foundations of the new NGO Arnika.[2]
He chaired Děti Země in 1993–2001 and Arnika in 2004–2007 and 2011–2018.[2]
