Last month, Welsh minister for environment Hannah Blythyn cleared a policy that banned the shooting of pheasants across the whole of Wales, due to what she described as a ‘delcine in biodiversity’. For some unexplained reason, the shooting of every species other than gamebird is allowed to continue. Blythyn used a poll organised by the League Against Cruel Sports and Animal Aid to suggest that the public were in favour of banning pheasant shooting. But in contrast to this, the GWCT has run a poll that suggests very different results. In conjunction with this poll, an investigation was launched to look