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It is estimated that every day the earth loses 150 species of plants and animals and insects and birds. Every two weeks a spoken language disappears from the world, swallowed by the great monocultures of English and to some extent Spanish. Im thinking of Gaulish and Ancient Coptic and Burgundian and Tuangurung, to name a precious few. These are largely earth-based languages that do not seek to categorize, but rather the language is a meeting, a handshake or a hug. I wanted to map the country around Strathbogie from the point of view of the wetlands that were so hurriedly drained to make productive agricultural land. How much was lost in those frenzied years? How much of the language of Sphagnum and Swamp Lilly and all that slithered and scuttled and hatched and spoke from the ooze was lost?