Fifty Years.
One Facility.
Final Phase.
Beagles have been bred at this Cambridgeshire site for half a century — up to two thousand a year, as widely reported, most sold for laboratory toxicity testing at around sixteen weeks old. The campaign that has worked to end that has reached its final phase. This page is the public record of how we got here — eight phases, in order: every conventional route exhausted, an open letter MBR Acres chose not to answer, and a September spent marching in step with America. Then the part that needs you.
Save the MBR Beagles is an independent UK civic campaign calling for the lawful closure of MBR Acres through licence revocation, parliamentary action, and public pressure on the laboratory supply chain.
Ways to help right now
The Country Agrees.
The public verdict has been in for years. Petitions delivered. Celebrities, MPs and organisations signed. Hundreds of thousands of names on the record.
121,854
E-petition 736578 (closed 30 April 2026) · Hansard Westminster Hall 27 April 2026
500,000+
Combined across petitions targeting MBR / dog testing
50+
Public figures on the Animal Rising open letter, April 2025
Animal Rising’s petition to shut down MBR Acres is open for signatures. Add your name if you haven’t — every signature still counts as a data point. But be clear-eyed about what it does and doesn’t do. Signatures alone have not moved this. That is why we are at Phase 05.
Public supporters of closing MBR Acres
The following 53 public figures, parliamentarians and organisation leaders have already added their names to an open letter calling for MBR Acres’ immediate closure (Animal Rising, April 2025).
Celebrities & public figures (15)
Dame Joanna Lumley
Actress and Presenter
Jonathan Ross OBE
TV Presenter and Broadcaster
Chris Packham CBE
Broadcaster and Environmental Campaigner
Amanda Holden
Presenter, Actress, and Singer
Olivia Bowen
Media Personality
Lucy Watson
Model and TV Personality
Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics, Princeton
J.M. Coetzee
Nobel Prize-winning author
John Banville
Author
Jake Lambert
Comedian
Dr Richard D. Ryder
Retired Trustee, Chair and President of the RSPCA
Gail Porter
Broadcaster and Animal Rights Advocate
Mat Fraser
Actor and Writer
Abbie Dewhurst
Weather and Climate Presenter
Alexis Gauthier
Michelin-Starred Vegan Chef
Parliamentarians (29) — Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, SNP, Independent
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Green, House of Lords
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Green, House of Lords
Rt Hon. Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat, House of Lords
Siân Berry MP
Green, Brighton Pavilion
Adrian Ramsay MP
Green, Waveney Valley
Carla Denyer MP
Green, Bristol Central
Dr Ellie Chowns MP
Green, North Herefordshire
Caroline Lucas
Former Green MP for Brighton Pavilion
Will Stone MP
Labour, Swindon North
Neil Duncan-Jordan MP
Labour, Poole
Ruth Jones MP
Labour, Newport West and Islwyn
Matt Bishop MP
Labour, Forest of Dean
Chris Hinchliff MP
Labour, North East Hertfordshire
Rachael Maskell MP
Labour, York Central
Brian Leishman MP
Labour, Alloa and Grangemouth
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill
Terry Jermy MP
Labour, South West Norfolk
Kim Johnson MP
Labour, Liverpool Riverside
Douglas McAllister MP
Labour, West Dunbartonshire
Tan Dhesi MP
Labour, Slough
Nadia Whittome MP
Labour, Nottingham East
Richard Burgon MP
Labour, Leeds East
Kerry McCarthy MP
Labour, Bristol East
Christine Jardine MP
Liberal Democrat, Edinburgh West
Liz Jarvis MP
Liberal Democrat, Eastleigh
Zarah Sultana MP
Your Party, Coventry South
Seamus Logan MP
SNP, Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
Iqbal Mohamed MP
Independent, Dewsbury and Batley
Alex Easton MP
Independent, North Down
Animal-protection organisations (9)
Ingrid Newkirk
Founder, PETA
Rose Patterson
Director, Animal Rising
Mark Westcombe
Director, Animal Think Tank
Claire Palmer
Founder, Animal Justice Project
Laura Lisa Hellwig
Managing Director, VIVA!
Nina May
Founder and Editor, Wunderdog Magazine
Libby Peppiat
CEO, The Vegan Society
Sue Coe
Artist Activist
Melanie Joy, PhD
Founding President, Beyond Carnism
The public has spoken. Many times. We don’t need more signatures — we need MBR to listen.
Camp Beagle. Five Years At The Gate.
The world's longest continuous animal-rights vigil. Outside MBR Acres since June 2021. Documenting every vehicle in, every vehicle out.
The gate
The encampment
The peopleContinuous presence
Year One
Year Two
Year Three
Year Four
Year Five
And counting.
Camp Beagle has been the on-the-ground witness for more than five years. Logging deliveries to Charles River, Labcorp and Sequani. Documenting the inside of an industry that has never wanted to be seen. Lawful, present, persistent. Camp isn’t going anywhere — and the longer it stays, the harder MBR’s position becomes.
Camp Beagle established outside MBR Acres, Wyton, Cambridgeshire, June 2021 · 2026 Lush Prize shortlist · Images: thecampbeagle.com
Five years of evidence. Filed in plain sight.
We Have Marched. We Have Been Counted.
More than a decade of demos, vigils and national days of action at MBR's gate and across the UK.
At the gate
Camp Beagle and a range of independent activist groups have held lawful presence at this site for over five years. National days of action have brought hundreds to the gate, repeatedly. This is not a moment of public attention — it’s a sustained civil-society effort that has refused to go away. And still: the facility breeds up to 2,000 puppies a year.
We have marched. We have gathered. We have been counted. Repeatedly. The gate has not opened — so we keep walking to it.
The world is closing in on the laboratory-beagle industry.
MBR Acres Ltd is a UK subsidiary of MFG International, which sits beneath Marshall BioResources in New York. This is an American multinational running a British beagle farm.
The same Marshall group runs MBR New York in the United States, currently the subject of an ongoing campaign by Save the Dogs USA. Separately, another US beagle-breeding facility — Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin, an independently-owned company — has agreed to close for good. Every remaining beagle is being released to rescue — more than 2,000 dogs in total — ending a multi-year US campaign in victory.
The picture is unmistakable: the laboratory-beagle industry is shrinking, on multiple fronts, in multiple countries, at the same time. Closing down MBR Cambridgeshire isn’t a UK-only story. It’s the British front of a global push — and that push is winning ground year on year.
Parliament Heard. Government Refused.
Westminster Hall, 27 April 2026. MPs from Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and the Independent benches spoke in favour of ending dog testing. The minister offered £75 million for research and a vision statement. That was it.
“Any move to end animal testing would be welcomed by many of our constituents.”
— Irene Campbell · Lab · North Ayrshire and Arran — APPG chair · Opening the debate
“It would be extremely naive to believe that that legislation was introduced for any reason other than to address the presence and actions of Camp Beagle.”
— Ben Obese-Jecty · Con · Huntingdon — MBR Acres’ own local MP · On the KNI Statutory Instrument
“When we cannot be sure that it is effective, testing on animals is not science — it is just violence.”
— Adam Dance · LD · Yeovil
“Over 90% of drugs that appear safe and effective in animals never make it through to approval for human use.”
— Adrian Ramsay · Green · Waveney Valley
“The system is failing both animals and humans. We have the evidence, we have the technology, and we have the public backing.”
— Adrian Ramsay · Green · Waveney Valley
“Scientists doing tests on mice just in case they spot something fascinating seems completely wrong.”
— Kerry McCarthy · Lab · Bristol East
“Some of us voted against the effort to quell protests against the site; it seemed a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.”
— Kerry McCarthy · Lab · Bristol East · On the vote to criminalise Camp Beagle
“I am wholly opposed to animal testing in all its forms; I believe it should be phased out across the board to the maximum extent possible.”
— Bradley Thomas · Con · Bromsgrove
“A 35% reduction five years away is not ambitious enough, and it has not been put on a statutory footing.”
— Gideon Amos · LD · Taunton and Wellington
“Animal testing should be ended as soon as possible and this debate should spur the Government into doing a lot more.”
— Gideon Amos · LD · Taunton and Wellington
“The Government have authorised the use of more than 6.5 million animals in experiments over the coming years.”
— Olly Glover · LD · Liberal Democrat spokesperson
All quotes verbatim from the Westminster Hall debate on e-petition 736578, 27 April 2026.
Read the full Hansard transcriptThe government’s response — in their own words
Ian Murray, Minister of State (DSIT). Not the Home Office.
“We want to replace animals in science wherever possible.”
“Backed by £75 million of funding to accelerate alternative methods.”
“Use of dogs in experimental procedures decreased by 29% compared with 2023.”
“A world in which the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but very exceptional circumstances.”
What the minister did NOT say
- · No mention of MBR Acres.
- · No statutory target with a date.
- · No response on the forced swim test.
- · No response on the KNI regulations targeting Camp Beagle.
- · No engagement with the 121,854 petitioners’ actual ask: statutory diversion of funding to non-animal methodologies.
Parliament heard us. Hansard records it. The government will not act. That is where the conventional route ends.
An Open Letter To MBR Acres.
A direct, public ask: meet us. Talk. Negotiate a peaceful close-down — the Ridglan model. Sent 20 June 2026. The four-week window closed on 19 July 2026. No reply.
To the Directors, MBR Acres Ltd
We are writing to offer MBR Acres a way out.
In 2026, an American beagle-breeding facility of comparable scale — Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin — agreed to close for good, releasing every remaining beagle to rescue — more than 2,000 dogs in total. It did so after a multi-year public campaign, peacefully, on a negotiated basis. We are writing to ask MBR Acres to do the same: meet, talk, and agree the peaceful end of this facility. That is the entirety of our ask.
The case against MBR Acres has been settled in the public mind for years. The 121,000 signatures presented to Parliament on 27 April 2026 did not start this conversation. They were the most recent entry in more than a decade of petitions, debates, letters and demonstrations, each one returning the same answer from the British people: this must end.
[The full letter continues. Read it below.]
The deadline passed
We asked MBR Acres for a substantive response within four weeks. The window closed at midday on 19 July 2026. Nothing came back — not a refusal, not a holding line, not an acknowledgement. The letter, and the silence that answered it, are both on the record.
Every week of that silence is a week inside for the dogs. Puppies are still being born into the facility; adolescent beagles are still reaching the age — around sixteen weeks — at which they are loaded into vans and sent to toxicity laboratories. So the pressure moves back outside the gate, where it has always been loudest.
The route was visible. They chose silence. We choose the street.
Out Of Silence. Onto The Street.
MBR Acres chose not to answer. So we took the question to the people who license it, and to the gate itself.
6 August 2026 · Westminster
The Home Office
Around fifty supporters gathered peacefully outside the department that licenses MBR Acres — many of them campaigning for the first time. Four people spoke, including whistleblower testimony from inside the industry, and leaflets went to staff and passers-by. Leicester Animal Rights Group stood with us.
Read the write-up6 September 2026 · Wyton
A Vigil At The Gate
Led by campaigner Beth, supporters gathered outside MBR Acres to remember the thousands of dogs who have died inside. Poems were read, flowers laid and stones painted; Ben Richardson sang a song written for the puppies, and there was a silence for the dogs still behind the fence. They are not numbers.
Read the write-upOne demonstration at the regulator’s door, one vigil at the breeder’s. Both peaceful, both public — and both the warm-up for September.
Two Countries. One Company.
September 2026. While Americans walked 207 miles to Marshall BioResources, we marched in London, Harrogate and Huntingdon — and filled every day in between.
The March to Abolish Animal Testing.
On 12 September the March for Animals set out from Albany, New York on a 207-mile, fourteen-day walk to the gates of Marshall BioResources in North Rose — the company that owns MBR Acres. Every UK march and walk in this phase was timed to it: we set off on the day they set off, and reached our gates on the day they reached theirs.
The ground is shifting over there. The NIH has closed its internal beagle laboratory and is backing the rehoming of research animals, and Marshall BioResources is now working with rescues to rehome beagles from its New York site. Another future for these dogs is possible — and it is the precedent we are asking for here.
Our marches · in solidarity
Saturday 12 September 2026Done
London
We marched through London, from the Brown Dog to Parliament.
Saturday 26 September 2026Done
Huntingdon
We marched from Huntingdon station to the gates of MBR Acres.
- 12 SepLondon: around 300 people, with supporters travelling from Germany, Ireland and across the UK, from the Brown Dog Memorial in Battersea past Buckingham Palace, the Royal Society and Downing Street to Parliament Square. Harrogate marched the same day, and met a town centre that mostly had no idea beagles are still bred for testing.
- 13–25The days in between: supporters claimed them with walks of their own — Mansfield, Holkham, Biggleswade, Maidenhead, Rosehearty, Leamington Spa, Bamburgh, daily leafleting at Margate station and more — so that every day the Americans were on the road, somebody in the UK was walking too.
- 26 SepHuntingdon: more than 200 people walked from the station to the gates of MBR Acres, arriving as the March for Animals arrived at Marshall BioResources — one company, one afternoon, two countries. 207 yellow ribbons went up on the trees beside the site, one for every mile walked in America. The march made the campaign’s first TV interview, on That’s TV Cambridgeshire.
Fifteen days, two countries, one company. They will have noticed.
The Future?
Bigger than one facility — and it needs you in it. Sign the petition, come to the next event, and find your way to help.
Sign the petition
Peter Egan’s parliamentary petition calls for a public inquiry into how animal experiments are regulated in the UK. It passed 10,000 signatures on 29 September, so the Government has to respond. At 100,000 it is considered for a debate.
petition.parliament.ukCome to an event
Next up: a demonstration outside the Animals in Science Regulation Unit in Croydon on 29 October — the Home Office unit that licenses MBR Acres. Every date we know about is in the diary.
See the eventsHow to help
Write to your MP, organise something local, print the leaflets, join the WhatsApp community, or lend us your skills. Everything you can do, on one page.
Find your way inMBR Acres is one front in a much larger fight. Closing it would be a landmark — but it is not the finish line.
Our aim is to bring the strands of this movement together — campaigners, fosterers, vets, lawyers, MPs and ordinary people — behind one shared goal: an end to beagle breeding and testing in the UK, and ultimately an end to animal testing in this country altogether.
No single group gets there alone. Camp Beagle at the gates, the supply-chain campaigners, the lawyers, the letter-writers, the person running a stall in their home town on a Saturday morning — every part matters, and it works best when it works together.
The science has moved. Public opinion has moved. The law can follow — if enough of us keep pushing, in the open, together.
Where this is heading
- 01The lawful closure of MBR Acres — an end to beagle breeding at Wyton.
- 02A UK-wide phase-out of dog testing with a real timeline, not a vague aspiration.
- 03Ultimately — an end to animal testing in the UK, replaced by the modern, non-animal science that already exists.
Proof it can be won
Wisconsin, 2026 — Ridglan Farms, a facility of comparable scale to MBR Acres, agreed to close for good and release every remaining beagle — more than 2,000 dogs. What looked impossible became inevitable once the movement refused to look away. That is the template.
Our preference is peace, and our method is the open, lawful, stubborn kind of pressure that has already emptied facilities elsewhere. We won’t go away — and we are stronger together.
The full chronology.
Every documented date in this story — the breeding, the law changes, the trials, the debates, and the campaign. All of it sourced on this site: see the facts, the law and the trials.
1970s–2018
From the 1970s
Fifty years of breeding at Wyton
Beagles are bred for laboratories at the Cambridgeshire site for half a century — through its Interfauna and Harlan eras, before Marshall BioResources’ UK subsidiary takes over in January 2018.
July 2012
Green Hill seized — Marshall’s Italian beagle farm
After years of protest and complaints, Brescia prosecutors seize Green Hill in Montichiari, the Italian beagle farm of Marshall BioResources. Around 3,000 beagles are placed with the charities LAV and Legambiente and rehomed. Trial evidence later recorded 6,023 dog deaths there between 2008 and 2012. Details→
March 2014
Italy bans breeding dogs for experiments
Legislative Decree 26/2014 bans breeding dogs, cats and primates for use in experiments in Italy. Green Hill can never reopen. The UK has no such ban.
23 January 2015
Green Hill staff convicted of animal cruelty
The Court of Brescia convicts three senior Green Hill staff — the executive manager, the director and the vet — of animal abuse and unnecessary killing of animals, with sentences of 12 to 18 months. Upheld on appeal in February 2016; made final by Italy’s Court of Cassation in October 2017. The precedent: a beagle farm can be emptied, closed, and its operators held to account. Details→
January 2018
Marshall BioResources takes over Wyton
MBR Acres Ltd — the UK subsidiary of the US group Marshall BioResources, incorporated in April 2017 — takes over the Wyton beagle-breeding site from previous owners including Harlan Laboratories, as a 2021 High Court judgment records. The facility is now known as MBR Acres.
2020–2022
2020
Full capacity: ~2,000 puppies a year
The Wyton site reaches full operation — up to two thousand beagles reported bred each year, most sold to laboratories at about sixteen weeks old.
June 2021
Camp Beagle begins
A continuous, lawful vigil starts at the gates of MBR Acres — it has not left since, and is described as the longest continuous animal-rights protest in the world.
2021
4,016 procedures on beagles in UK labs
Home Office statistics for 2021 record 4,016 procedures on beagles in British laboratories in a single year.
From 2021
The policing bill starts climbing
Cambridgeshire Police begin a spend on policing MBR Acres protest activity that passes £2.1 million by 2026.
2022
Petition passes 100,000 signatures
A parliamentary e-petition on the commercial breeding of animals for laboratories passes 100,000 signatures (around 102,000 in all), the threshold at which Parliament considers it for debate.
June 2022
First open rescue — 5 beagles
Five beagles are carried out of MBR Acres in daylight. The CPS initially drops all charges, then resurrects them years later.
20 December 2022
The largest open rescue — 18 beagles
Supporters of Animal Rebellion (now Animal Rising) enter MBR Acres and take twenty puppies. Police recover two; the other eighteen are never returned. Eighteen people are later charged with burglary — the cases behind the 2025–26 Crown Court trials.
23 December 2022
Love and Libby returned
Two of the puppies, intercepted by police, are handed back to MBR Acres. What happened to them after that has never been made public.
2023–2025
16 January 2023
First Westminster Hall debate
MPs debate the e-petition on commercial breeding for laboratories in Westminster Hall after it passes 100,000 signatures.
2023 onwards
65+ companies cut ties
Under sustained, lawful public pressure on the supply chain, more than sixty-five companies walk away from MBR Acres.
2024
Half a million signatures
Petitions across platforms collectively pass 500,000 signatures.
October 2025
Ridglan agrees to give up its licence
To avoid prosecution for animal cruelty, Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin — the closest US equivalent to MBR Acres — agrees with a court-appointed special prosecutor to surrender its state licence to sell dogs, effective 1 July 2026. Details→
November 2025
ASRU audits MBR Acres
The Home Office regulator carries out an announced inspection of MBR Acres and, ministers later tell Parliament, records no critical or major findings — only minor ones such as surface rust and a loose drain cover. The audit MPs would question in the House.
November 2025
Government publishes its phase-out strategy
“Replacing Animals in Science” promises to phase out animal testing “in all but exceptional circumstances” — with no statutory targets attached.
16 December 2025
Trial 1 — Cambridge Crown Court
Five defendants convicted of burglary over an open rescue; suspended sentences and a conditional discharge. No custody.
2026
12 January 2026
Trial 2 — first open-rescue acquittal in UK history
A Cambridge jury unanimously acquits four defendants. For the first time, a UK jury says an open rescue of laboratory animals was not dishonest.
14 January 2026
MPs approve the “national infrastructure” law
The House of Commons approves, by 301 votes to 110, regulations adding “life sciences infrastructure” — animal testing facilities, including a commercial dog breeder — to the Public Order Act 2023’s Key National Infrastructure offence. On 4 February the House of Lords votes down a motion to stop them. Details→
3 February 2026
Trial 3 — Peterborough Crown Court
Four defendants convicted of burglary after around five hours of deliberation.
12 February 2026
The KNI law takes effect
From this day, “interfering” with MBR Acres — a dog breeder now legally classed alongside power stations and hospitals — carries up to 12 months in prison and an unlimited fine.
24 February 2026
First arrests under the new law
Two campaigners are arrested at MBR Acres under the KNI offence — the first in the country.
2 March 2026
Judicial review filed
Lawyers for Animals and Camp Beagle campaigner Maria Iriart (represented by Bates Wells) file High Court proceedings arguing the KNI regulations are unlawful and breach ECHR Articles 10 and 11 — free expression and peaceful assembly.
9 March 2026
Trial 4 — second acquittal
A Peterborough jury acquits all five defendants, including Animal Rising director Rose Patterson, after three days of deliberation. Chris Packham gives a character reference.
26 March 2026
Trial 5 — and the bleeding licence concession
Three defendants convicted by 10–2 majority over the June 2022 rescue. In the process, the prosecution concedes on the record that MBR Acres holds a licence to bleed dogs under terminal anaesthesia.
18 April 2026
Ridglan Farms, Wisconsin — the movement escalates
Over 1,000 peaceful activists converge on Ridglan Farms, the closest US equivalent to MBR Acres. Deputies respond with tear gas, rubber bullets and flashbangs; 25 are arrested, including four attorneys.
24 April 2026
Class action over the Ridglan policing
A federal class action is filed in Wisconsin over the policing of 18 April.
27 April 2026
Second Westminster Hall debate
Petition #736578 to end testing on dogs and other animals — 121,854 signatures when it closed three days later — is debated. Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent MPs speak for ending dog testing. The local MP, Ben Obese-Jecty, tells the House it would be “extremely naive” to believe the KNI regulations were introduced for any reason “other than to address the presence and actions of Camp Beagle”.
29 April 2026
Ridglan agrees to release 1,500 beagles
Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy secure about 1,500 of Ridglan’s beagles for rescue — and the US House Appropriations Committee passes a cross-party amendment directing the USDA to review breeder licences where state licensure is lost.
1 May 2026
The Ridglan transfers begin
The first of the 1,500 beagles leave Ridglan for rescue.
May 2026
Lush Prize 2026
Camp Beagle is commended in the Public Awareness category of the 2026 Lush Prize, awarded in London from a £250,000 fund for work to end animal testing.
15 June 2026
Ridglan agrees to close for good
Big Dog Ranch Rescue announces a deal for the permanent closure of Ridglan Farms and the transfer of its last 475 beagles — more than 2,100 dogs rescued in all. Its licence surrender takes effect on 1 July. Proof that a breeder of MBR’s scale can be emptied by lawful, relentless public pressure. Details→
20 June 2026
The open letter is posted
Dated and sent by recorded delivery to MBR Acres, its parent companies, customers and the Cambridgeshire authorities — proposing a negotiated, peaceful end to breeding at Wyton, including an offer to buy the remaining dogs.
21 June 2026
The letter goes public
Hand-delivered in person and published in full on this site at midday. Thousands add their names.
9 July 2026
Dog use rises again
Home Office statistics for 2025 record 2,889 experimental procedures on dogs in Great Britain — up 9% on 2024 — among 2.54 million procedures on animals in all. Details→
19 July 2026
The response window closes — no reply
The letter gave MBR Acres four weeks for a substantive reply. None came. The silence is now part of the public record, alongside the letter itself. Details→
29 July 2026
High Court allows a challenge to the KNI law
The High Court grants Animal Aid permission to bring a judicial review of the regulations that made “life sciences infrastructure”, MBR Acres included, Key National Infrastructure. Details→
6 August 2026
Home Office demo
Around fifty Save the Dogs UK supporters gather peacefully outside the Home Office — many campaigning for the first time. Four speak, including whistleblower testimony; leaflets go to staff and passers-by. Leicester Animal Rights Group join in. Details→
6 September 2026
Vigil at MBR Acres
From noon, a peaceful vigil outside the gates to remember the thousands of dogs who have died inside, led by campaigner Beth. Poems read, flowers laid, stones painted, a song written for the puppies, and a silence for the dogs. They are not numbers. Details→
12 September 2026
The March to Abolish Animal Testing sets off
In Albany, New York, the March for Animals begins its 207-mile, fourteen-day walk to the gates of Marshall BioResources in North Rose — the company that owns MBR Acres. Every UK walk over the next fifteen days is in step with it. Their site →
12 September 2026
London march — the Brown Dog to Parliament
Our first London march — around 300 people — sets off from the Brown Dog Memorial in Battersea Park on the day the Americans set off, and walks past Buckingham Palace, the Royal Society and Downing Street to Parliament Square, with supporters travelling from Germany, Ireland and across the UK. The same day, a Harrogate march takes the message to a town centre that had mostly never heard it. Details→
13–25 September 2026
The solidarity window fills
Supporters claim the days between the two marches with walks of their own — Mansfield, Holkham, Biggleswade, Maidenhead, Rosehearty, Leamington Spa, Bamburgh and more — so that every day the Americans are on the road, somebody in the UK is walking too. Details→
26 September 2026
Huntingdon march — to the gates of MBR Acres
More than 200 people walk from Huntingdon station through the town to the facility itself, arriving as the March for Animals arrives at Marshall BioResources in North Rose, New York: one company, one afternoon, two countries. A collar memorial goes up on the trees beside the site — 207 yellow ribbons, one for every mile walked in the United States. Details→
29 September 2026
The inquiry petition passes 10,000
Peter Egan’s parliamentary petition for a public inquiry into the regulation of animal experimentation under ASPA 1986 — opened on 9 September, backed by this campaign — passes 10,000 signatures, so the Government must respond. At 100,000 it is considered for debate. Their site →
29 October 2026Upcoming
ASRU demo, Croydon
A demonstration outside the Animals in Science Regulation Unit — the Home Office unit that licenses MBR Acres — in Croydon. Details and registration on the events page. Join it→
In short
The timeline: questions
How long have beagles been bred at MBR Acres?
How long has Camp Beagle been outside MBR Acres?
What happened at the Westminster Hall debate on 27 April 2026?
What is the KNI law and how does it affect protest at MBR Acres?
Did MBR Acres reply to the open letter?
What happened to Ridglan Farms?
What were the September 2026 marches?
You’ve read the roadmap.
Join Us.
There are real, lawful ways to help right now — write to your MP, come to an event, organise where you live, and support the wider movement. Here’s how.
How You Can HelpRead the open letter