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A ban on shooting pheasants on public land in Wales has been upheld after countryside campaigners challenged the decision in the High Court.

Natural Resources Wales announced last year that shooting would stop on land owned by the Welsh government, and leases for shoots expired this month.

On Tuesday, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, the Countryside Alliance and the National Gamekeepers' Organisation appealed to the High Court for听 permission to bring a Judicial Review against NRW鈥檚 decision -- but their legal challenge failed.

Animal rights groups say pheasants are factory-farmed and shot for sporting purposes, but听people supporting the industry听say shooting helps sustain the rural economy.

Nimrod Wambette has been in Wales speaking to farmers and schoolchildren about his life as a coffee farmer in Uganda. He was invited to this country by Ffion Storer Jones of Montgomeryshire Young Farmers' Club. Towards the end of his stay in Wales, Nimrod was听at the Senedd in听Cardiff to represent Uganda at an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Commonwealth.

Bangor University and Friends of the Earth have found microplastic pollution in some of the most well known rivers and lakes in Britain -- including Llyn Cefni Reservoir on Anglesey and Afon Cegin, near Bangor. The study is believed to be the first of its kind and it听looked at 10 sites -- including听the Lake District, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park -- and found microplastics in all of them.

Now, they say that a听hundred mile journey starts with a single step, but how about a听13,000 miles on horseback? That particular feat has been accomplished by Megan Knoyle Lewis, who claims to be the first person ever to have ridden around the world on a horse.听We've听been to meet the听retired teacher and Welsh pony breeder at her home near Pumpsaint in Carmarthenshire.

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