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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Bettencourt, a pharmacy flight chief with the 55th Medical Support Squadron, stands in a knee-deep trench that will serve as the foundation for a working elephant corral in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Bettencourt volunteered to spend two weeks building a corral with other volunteers from around the world. Corrals are quickly being adopted throughout the world as a better method of caring for working elephants. (photo courtesy of Elephant Aid International)


OPERATION: Unchained

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Bettencourt, a pharmacy flight chief with the 55th Medical Support Squadron, stands in a knee-deep trench that will serve as the foundation for a working elephant corral in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Bettencourt volunteered to spend two weeks building a corral with other volunteers from around the world. Corrals are quickly being adopted throughout the world as a better method of caring for working elephants. (photo courtesy of Elephant Aid International)

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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Bettencourt, a pharmacy flight chief with the 55th Medical Support Squadron, poses with a certificate he received from Jamal Jung Kunwar, chief conservation of Chitwan National Park, Nepal, after spending two weeks building an elephant corral on Aug. 26, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The corrals are replacing the chains used by elephant handlers to keep their working elephants in place. Corrals have been proven to improve the health and demeanor of the elephants and are being widely adopted by working elephant handlers throughout the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Plueger/Released)
‘Chain free means pain,’ free is the motto of Elephant Aid International where traditional shackles have been replaced by more humanitarian corrals giving the elephants room to roam. The groundbreaking change in how working elephants are housed has produced several positive results leading to more corrals being built around the world. (photo courtesy of Elephant Aid International)
Kamal Jung Kunwar, chief conservation officer and author, greets U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Bettencourt, a pharmacy flight chief with the 55th Medical Support Squadron, while visiting with volunteers building working elephant corrals in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. An international crew of volunteers came to Chitwan to build the corrals that will replace the chains elephants were tethered to in their off time. (photo courtesy of Elephant Aid International)
Volunteers remove thick jungle brush to erect the walls of an elephant corral in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott Bettencourt worked 11 hour days for two weeks to ensure the elephants would have a finished corral prior to leaving rural Nepal back home to his duty station at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. (Elephant Aid International photo by Murray Munro)