The critical battle to save Christmas Island's unique native species from invasive feral cats is intensifying. These predators are pushing incredible birds and reptiles toward extinction.

This difficult conservation work is a complex balance of protecting irreplaceable wildlife and managing animal welfare, all to give the island's natural heritage a future.

#ChristmasIsland #InvasiveSpecies #FeralCats #Conservation #AustralianWildlife #Biodiversity

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-08/christmas-island-feral-cat-battle-to-save-native-species/105915526

Feral cat eradication on Christmas Island clashes with Malay culture

On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not everyone is celebrating.

ABC News
#Google to build new #AI #datacentre on tiny #Australia's #ChristmasIsland, a 52-square-mile territory in #IndianOcean
Residents are concerned impact #datacenter may have on energy supplies on the island, which is 1,500 km from mainland Australia and relies on #diesel to supplement limited #renewables
A recent #tabletop #wargame involving the Australia, #US and #Japan highlighted Christmas Island's role as a forward line of defence for Australia in any regional conflict
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-planning-powerful-ai-data-centre-tiny-australian-indian-ocean-outpost-2025-11-06/

So Google is building a massive AI data centre on Christmas Island, a tiny remote Australian territory with 1,692 people, and it’s exactly the kind of dystopian tech imperialism you’d expect.
They’re militarising a small island community in the name of cloud computing, partnering with the Australian Defence Department to monitor Chinese submarines and enable AI powered warfare systems. The island becomes a pawn in great power conflicts while Google extracts strategic value.
Meanwhile, locals are promised vague economic benefits while their homeland gets turned into a surveillance node with subsea cables linking to US Marine bases. Classic extractive colonialism dressed up as innovation.
The energy demands alone, powered by a local mining company, naturally, are staggering. Big Tech continues doubling our electricity costs for AI toys while communities bear the burden.
Christmas Island is known for red crab migrations, not military infrastructure. But when you’re a trillion dollar corporation, even the most remote ecosystems are just real estate for your empire.

#googleisevil #bigtech #militarisation #digitalcolonialism #aiethics #christmasisland #defendtheislands #environment #aibubble

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-planning-powerful-ai-data-centre-tiny-australian-indian-ocean-outpost-2025-11-06/

Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

Ars Technica
Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

Ars Technica
Watch: Christmas Island red crabs begin annual migration

The island off mainland Australia experiences the event every summer, when around 50 million crabs scuttle down from their homes to the beach to lay eggs.

BBC News
Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out from the island since the introduction of invasive species there a century ago. The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) was […]

Mongabay Environmental News
Millions of red crabs migrate across Christmas Island

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