After trenches, solar fences, rail barricades, barbed wires and honeybee fences... Now, steel wires to stop jumbos from straying out of forests

Bengaluru: Be it elephant trenches, solar-powered fences, Railway track barricades, chilli-tobacco rope fences, barbed wires, honeybee fences, wild elephants have always outsmarted all methods tried by the Forest Department to keep them inside reserve forests, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

Elephants have continued to stray into human habitats and over the years, human-elephant conflict has only increased causing deaths and injuries in both humans and elephant populations.