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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service with a colleague playing the role of a poacher as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training with Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Africa is getting tougher in its fight against poaching with new laws with stiff penalties, more military training for rangers, and new technology like drones with thermal cameras are all helping to protect rhinos and elephants. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, corporal Andrew Smith of Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, right, instructs rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service about the use of hand signals while patrolling, as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Africa is getting tougher in its fight against poaching with new laws with stiff penalties, more military training for rangers, and new technology like drones with thermal cameras are all helping to protect rhinos and elephants. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service take cover while engaging in a mock ambush as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training with Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Africa is getting tougher in its fight against poaching with new laws with stiff penalties, more military training for rangers, and new technology like drones with thermal cameras are all helping to protect rhinos and elephants. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, Corporal Andrew Smith of Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, right, instructs rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service about the use of hand signals while patrolling, as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Africa is getting tougher in its fight against poaching with new laws with stiff penalties, more military training for rangers, and new technology like drones with thermal cameras are all helping to protect rhinos and elephants. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2013 file photo, petroleum coke, or petcoke, is watered down where it is stored along the Calumet River on Chicago's southeast side. The Pollution Control Board is scheduled to meet Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Chicago to consider Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed emergency regulations for petroleum coke. Quinn says he's responding to complaints from Chicago residents that petroleum coke piling up on the city's southeast side is a health and environmental threat. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)