Background
Velek was born November 30, 1939 in Klínec, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Velek was born November 30, 1939 in Klínec, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Master of Art, Technology) (November 30, 1939-April 30, 1990) was a Czechoslovak (Czechoslovakian) journalist, author and environmentalist. In 1974 he co-founded the Brontosaurus environmentalist movement. Velek died on April 30, 1990 while scuba diving in the Red Sea.
He began to publish in the sixties, and from 1975 was a member of the editorial staff of the Mladý svět (Young world) weekly.