Anuar Abdullah is a 61-year-old diving instructor in Malaysia. When he isn't 1 , he's back out in the water2 , studying, and restoring coral reefs (珊瑚礁).
Now, as climate change becomes an3 threat, governments, corporations, and others are coming to him for4 .
Abdullah has no degree in marine biology or5 training—just an amount of experience. In just the past decade, thousands have6 him for advice on how to grow corals, and he now has around 700 active volunteers and has already 7 hundreds of acres of coral reefs.
In 2017, Thailand's government asked Abdullah to 8 the restoration of one of its most famous tourist attractions, Maya Bay, because it had9 half its coral population.10 were kept out of the site for three years while Abdullah led a team of 120 people in11 new corals.
In 2021, after Typhoon Rai, the island of Cebu in the Philippines asked Abdullah to save what was12 of the shoreline's coral reefs. And earlier this year, Abdullah launched a new effort to build the world's largest coral nursery in the Red Sea. There was a13 on the nursery at the U.N. climate change summit (峰会), COP27, but Abdullah did not attend. He 14 conferences, he says. And he had15 to do.
