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World Day for Animals In Laboratories 2025 . April 26th Rally

World Day for Animals in Laboratories was instituted in 1979 and has been a catalyst for the movement to end the suffering of animals in laboratories around the world and their replacement with advanced scientific non-animal techniques.

On April 26th, the animal freedom movement and the wider public are coming together outside the notorious puppy factory MBR Acres to remember the countless animals killed inside laboratories in the UK and across the world. More at https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2025/03/10/world-day-for-animals-in-laboratories-demo-uk/

If you attend just one event this year, make sure it is World Day for Animals in Laboratories at MBR Acres in Cambridgeshire! The protest starts at 12pm @ MBR Acres, Huntingdon PE28 2DT

This will be the largest event outside of MBR in recent memory; not just a protest against their violence, but a celebration of our movement and our power.

Start planning and book your coaches and minibuses; this is a moment for our movement to come together and rise, and all of us are needed.

If you can`t attend the march we hope you can demonstrate outside your local labs, or shops with links to vivisection. Tag #wdail2025 in your social media posts so we get to see you in action. Let`s make it the biggest range of demonstrations against animal testing held in one day!

Veggies Vegan Catering Campaign will be there to keep you filled with fabulous food

Download and display this PDF poster for World Day for Animals in Laboratories 2025

Click Map for directions

Burton Hunt Supporter in Court

Neil Burton – huntsman for the Burton Hunt – has been charged under Section One of the Hunting Act 2004 which prohibits a person from hunting a wild mammal with dogs.

Following an initial hearing the case has been referred to Lincoln Magistrates Court on Friday 25th October.

Please support the witnesses by showing solidarity at the court.

“We politely request that people remain mindful of the ramifications that online speculation may have for the outcome of this case and refrain from doing so speculation or heated discussion.”

Follow the Animal Rights Calendar for other campaign activities.

Grand National Protest

Every year hundreds of horses are raced to death in Britain, and thousands more are killed for meat.

Horses are abused by trainers and others in order to make them run as fast as possible, no matter the consequences to their health and happiness.

68 horses have died at Aintree since 2007.

Please DO NOT bet on animal’s lives. Betting income and racecourse attendance fees keep the racing industry in business.

See also Animal Aid horse racing campaign pages and the list of all the horses killed at Aintree and other race courses since 2007 at Race Horse Death Watch.

Various Animal Rights Groups in Nottingham including Nottingham Animal Rights, will come together on Saturday 5th April to fight the Grand National. Bring flyers, posters. If you’d like to order Animal Aid’s Sanctuary Not Cruelty leaflets to hand out in your town centre, please email Animal Aid.

Call on Broxtowe Council to reject Trowell Zoo application

A date has been set for Broxtowe Council to discuss the controversial Trowell Zoo application and we need YOU to help the Council reject it.

It is up to us to show that this green belt flood plain land should remain undeveloped, and that authorising NEW zoos is a step backwards in 2024.

Our Animal Rising supporters in the midlands have worked tirelessly throughout 2023, and into 2024 to call on Broxtowe Council to reject the zoo application.

This is your chance to join our efforts as we gather outside of the Town Hall, Foster Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG9 1AB at 5:30pm on Wednesday 13th March and call on the Council to decline plans for further animal exploitation, and to protect our local wildlife and green spaces

For more information see the statement from Born Free Foundation

Born Free strongly opposes the exploitation and keeping of wild animals in captivity and campaigns to Keep Wildlife in the Wild.

Find more campaign events on the Animal Rights Calendar Animal Rights Calendar

We need YOU to join our demonstration!

We will be opposing the Trowell Zoo planning application at Broxtowe Council in Nottingham at 17:30 on 13th March.

Join Animal Rising and Freedom for Animals @freeanimalsuk to say NO to Trowell Zoo and protect this greenbelt land. pic.twitter.com/1FnmjYElVy

— Animal Rising (@AnimalRising) March 7, 2024

Nottingham Animal Rights Planning Meeting at Sumac

Nottingham Animal Rights meeting at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields, to plan forthcoming campaign activities.

All welcome – hunt sabs, vegan campaigners, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Greyhound Action, Hunt Sabs, VIVA!, Vegan Society and the many other groups that we aim to support locally.

In between the Sumac meetings, there may also be meetings in the City Centre.

We recognize that turning up to a meeting of complete strangers can be daunting, but the atmosphere at NottinghamAR meetings is always very informal, and by all means bring a couple of friends with you if it makes you feel more confident, everyone is welcome!

The planning meetings are where you can obtain support from like minded people for campaigns against all forms of animal cruelty.

There is no hierarchy, our broad scope is a consequence of a broad demographic of proactive members. Whether your interest is in countering the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, blood sports or (most commonly) all animal cruelty, you will find campaigning opportunities as part of both local and national initiatives.

We have members from all backgrounds, from experienced activists to those who are new to animal rights or have been appalled by YouTube videos of animal experiments and joined us to do something about it. So don’t worry if you are new to campaigning, there truly is something for everyone. 🙂

All our activities are 100% legal and non-violent, we do public protests and other direct action, we do information stalls, we do free food give-aways, we do sanctuary work, and in fact anything else we can think of, including trips to demos elsewhere.

More Nottingham Animal Rights activities on Veggies Animal Rights Calendar.

Nottingham Animal Rights Planning Meeting at Sumac

Nottingham Animal Rights meeting at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields, to plan forthcoming campaign activities.

In between the Sumac meetings, there may also be meetings in the City Centre.

The planning meetings are where you can obtain support from like minded people for campaigns against all forms of animal cruelty.

More Nottingham Animal Rights activities on Veggies Animal Rights Calendar.

World Day for Animals In Laboratories 2024

Come and join us for the 2024 march through Liverpool. The march will kick off at 12:00 and there will be speeches and stops on route. Meeting point and the start and end of the march: St John`s Gardens, St John`s Lane, Liverpool, L1 1JJ, 12pm – 5pm

Veggies Vegan Catering Campaign will be there to keep you filled with fabulous food. In addition, if you can’t make the Liverpool march, why not join in with a mixture of demonstrations and online events.

Demonstrate outside your own local labs, or shops with links to vivisection, and either send us a video in advance or tell us if you are willing to live stream on the day. We want to share each others’ actions and to join the biggest range of demonstrations against animal testing held in one day.

World Day for Animals in Laboratories 2019

Join World Day for Laboratory Animals 2019!

Let’s make Saturday 27 April 2019 the biggest march for laboratory animals the UK has seen in recent years.

It will take place in Oxford – home to a university experimenting on the largest number of animals in Britain.

Each year inside British laboratories, around 4 million animals are experimented on. Every 8 seconds, one animal dies. Included are experiments on more than 600,000 animals. With over half of all animal experiments now taking place in universities it is crucial we speak out to end animal suffering and progress beyond wasteful, costly and cruel research.

Guest speakers throughout the day will be raising awareness about poor and cruel science behind animal experimentations and curiosity-driven research. There will vegan food and campaign stands, a media presence, exciting and creative stunts.

World Day for Animals in Laboratories banner

World Day for Animals in Laboratories 2020

Join World Day for Laboratory Animals 2020 in Liverpool.

Guest speakers throughout the day will be raising awareness about poor and cruel science behind animal experimentation and curiosity-driven research. There will vegan food and campaign stands, a media presence, exciting and creative stunts.

Peter Egan makes a historic speech for WDAIL, 2019 https://t.co/D1nkKXQ0xb via @YouTube

— Passing Phase [Media Productions] (@passingphase_uk) April 29, 2019

Twycross Zoo Demo 31/03

On Saturday 31st of March we will join other local groups to peacefully demonstrate outside Twycross Zoo. This is for Freedom for Animals’ ‘zoo awareness weekend’.

We will be there to highlight many concerning and upsetting aspects that come with keeping wild animals captive.

Every year zoos across the UK, Europe and worldwide cull excess animals, especially males and unwanted offspring. Each year many animals are bred and have offspring yet the zoo’s populations don’t grow at the same rate. This is due to compensatory culling. Animals with characteristics which are undesired or simply surplus animals are killed. Why would they do this? Babies bring in customers. More customers means more money.

For example, Longleat Safari Park have a famous pride of lions which they let breed out of control causing much of the group to be shot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26115468

A large proportion of animals in zoos are not endangered so are simply kept there as an attraction, just like animals in circuses. The spaces zoos provide is minuscule compared to that of their natural territories. Enclosures are usually thousands and thousands times smaller than their natural ranges. Cheap and easy diets are often a problem for the captive animals too leading to many unnecessary illnesses, not seen in their wild members of the same species.

Keeping animals in cages comes at a cost. Seen when Woburn safari park was responsible for 13 Patas Monkeys dying in a fire when their enclosure caught fire: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woburn-safari-park-fire-latest-patas-monkeys-die-killed-bedfordshire-animals-dead-a8137456.html

Are zoos there for conservation? It is a rare sight when any zoo around the world releases a single animal back into the wild. Ask them for yourself and some specific examples.

Here’s some information on this from the Born Free Foundation: http://www.bornfree.org.uk/campaigns/zoo-check/uk-zoos/zoo-conservation/do-zoos-help-conservation/

If you want to know more information on this cruelty, Freedom for Animals have a great section on their website:
https://www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/zoos

Join us for a 3 hour demonstration. Bring signs or we can provide them.

See you there!