“When I came closer I saw this beautiful turtle turned upside down with a look of hopelessness and exhaustion in her eyes, her body knotted and entangled in a fishing net,” she stated. “I immediately started to free her from the net that was strangling her, but even after we got her untied, she was too tired to make her way back to the ocean.”
That’s when Gisele took matters into her own hands. “I didn’t think twice, I just picked her up and carry her to the water,” she added. “I felt relieved and so happy to see her swim away freely, grateful that I was there and able to help.”
Gisele, who chose a sea turtle as her “kindred species” as part of the U.N.’s ‘Wild For Life’ campaign in 2016, urged her followers to take care of the animals in their area, writing, “I pray that we can all rise and remember that the opportunity to change begins with a single act.”
