The Dhenkanal forest department in Odisha have planned to install automatic sirens near the national highway, in a bid to protect elephants from accidents.

• Under the Elephant Siren Project, Siren tower will be put in the elephant prone areas.
• These sensor-based sirens will start blaring, when elephants will cross the road for alerting drivers within a distance of up to 1km.
• As soon as elephants will arrive, the siren will ring and red light will be turned on.
• Forest officer will also receive a message regarding this, on his mobile phone.