Brazil president gives nod to conservationist supermodel Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Bundchen, Michel Temer

Gisele Bundchen

National Football League (NFL) star Tom Brady's supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen managed to achieve what conservationists and scientists have failed to do by persuading Brazil's president Michel Temer to veto a legislation that would have slashed protected reserves in the Amazon, reported The Guardian.

Brazil's president Temer

Temer replied to a message from Bundchen to announce that he will veto plans to cut conservation in the Amazon. In her tweet last week, Bundchen urged Temer to block a bill that would have opened up 600,000 hectares (1.5m acres) of forest to development.

She wrote: "It's our job to protect our Mother Earth."

The Brazil president probably had a think about Bundchnen's suggestion thereafter. And replying to the model's tweet yesterday, he announced that he was vetoing the proposed legislation.