Nicolas Atwood

Nicolas Atwood is an American animal rights activist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He maintains the Malaysia-registered Bite Back direct-action website, which is associated with the Animal Liberation Front.

Background

Originally from Chaska, Minnesota, Atwood is a former arts promoter with a postgraduate degree in business management from New York University. He has a number of animal rights-related convictions, including criminal damage.

SHAC and SPEAK

Atwood is said by The [Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times] to have traveled to Britain to meet Greg Avery of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign, which aims to close Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British and U.S.-based contract animal testing company.
Atwood is also allegedly involved in the SPEAK campaign to stop the construction by Oxford University of a new animal-testing laboratory, believed by animal-rights activists to include plans for a new primate facility. According to The Sunday Times, he has sent out e-mails naming Oxford academics who are targets of the animal rights movement, including Colin Blakemore, former head of the British Medical Research Council.