Gisele Bundchen is a new UN advocate for environment
Gisele Bündchen, 29, was out and about showing off her baby bump this weekend, looking cuter than ever! The supermodel, who is expecting her first child with hubby Tom Brady in December, isn´t letting pregnancy slow her down one bit. The Brazilian supermodel is a new UN advocate for environmental awareness – and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.
“I´m really honored to have received a call from the UN to spread the message about climate change in the world.”
The environment has long been an important cause of Bündchen´s. “I started paying attention to what was happening with the environment when I had a visit to the Xingu area of the Amazon in 2003,” she told reporters during an appearance in Manhattan´s Washington Square. “I spent a week with an Indian tribe and everyone was complaining they were getting sick because the waters were polluted. I was like, ´Who is doing something about this?´”
Since then, Bündchen started a charity called Agua Limpia and joinedforces with the United Nation´s Environmental Program to help spread the word. “We must act now, so future generations have the sameopportunity,” she said, “Mother Earth is our fundamental life-support system, and by becoming aware and responsible now, we can assist in preserving the planet.”
Bundchen told reporters in New York that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should propose better laws to stop the razing of the world´s largest rainforest. Her comments were published in major Brazilian newspapers that covered her comments as she was named a goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Program.
Silva said his new proposal to limit sugarcane production in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas is proof of his commitment to Amazon preservation.
Looks like motherhood is good for the planet too!
Nicola
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