Jindřich Petrlík

Jindřich Petrlík (born 19 November 1961 Teplice) is a Czech scientist and environmentalist. He is a co-founder and board member of the Czech NGO Arnika, program manager of its Toxics and Waste Programme.

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. 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.

He chaired Děti Země in 1993–2001 and Arnika in 2004–2007 and 2011–2018. He also tracked brominated flame retardants and dioxins in toys and other consumer goods. and from 2015 also in the "Small Intersessional Working Group" for the issue of waste containing persistent organic substances of the Basel Convention. He was also involved in the preparation of the Minamata Convention (on mercury) best available technology documents.