- Hammerskjoeld Simwinga is a Zambian environmentalist.
- He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007.
- Simwinga tried to stop elephant poaching through community economic initiatives.
- He is named after former United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in a plane crash in Zambia in 1961.
- Simwinga was a family guy.
- Hammer Simwinga appeared on Time Magazine’s list of “Heroes of the Environment” October 2007.
- Hammer is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Foundation for Wildlife and Habitat Conservation, headquartered in Muchinga Province in northern Zambia.
- He is currently spearheading the creation of the Mukungule Community Nature Conservancy, to be Zambia’s first community-initiated and -operated nature conservancy.
- Hammer is married and has 4 children.
- Simwinga also liked fishing.
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