Helena Telkänranta, Director of WEPA, is a zoologist with extensive experience in various conservation and animal welfare NGO’s. She currently works as a researcher specializing in animal behaviour and welfare, especially in designing improved housing for captive animals. In 2005, she started developing WEPA as a way of creating a new kind of a way to bring benefits to animals and people at the same time: a co-operative approach, joining the forces of Eastern and Western experts and bringing the fruits of scientific knowledge available for elephant trainers in the field.
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- Training an elephant to turn on a cue by using the Positive Learning Method
- Young elephants playing
- Elephants carrying tourists in Chitwan, Nepal
- Tourists enjoying a shower by an elephant at the village of Sauraha in Chitwan, Nepal
- Chandra Man Tamang and Dr. Andrew McLean, two of the key trainers of elephants in the international co-operation
