It's one of the world's most isolated islands. Here come the bulldozers

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India is pouring $9 billion into Great Nicobar, one of Earth's most isolated islands, to build a megaport, airport, and sprawling city. The project aims to create a major trading hub and military asset in the Indian Ocean, but conservationists warn that bulldozers will carve through pristine forests and disrupt the lives of indigenous inhabitants who have lived there for centuries. The island's remoteness, accessible only by ship or plane, has left it largely untouched; development threatens both its ecology and its indigenous communities.