Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

An extraordinary event took place on August 26 at Wingabaw Elephant Camp in Bago, Myanmar. Pearl Sandar, a 21-year-old female elephant, gave birth to a pair of twins: a female and a male calf.

A week after the devastating earthquake that shook Myanmar, the scale of casualties and destruction in the war-torn country still remains unclear. The 7.7-magnitude quake on Friday, the world’s ...