The Amazon Forest in Brazil is expected to see an increase in illegal logging after years of declines. 

From the AP (via Yahoo News):

Destruction of the Amazon is again on the upswing despite a recent crackdown on illegal logging, Brazil’s new environment minister said Wednesday.

Carlos Minc said official calculations of how much rain forest has been cut down would be released Monday by the National Space Research Institute.

“It will be bad news. It will be data showing an increase in deforestation,” Minc said in an interview on Globo TV.

Minc took his post last week after veteran rain forest defender Marina Silva surprised the nation by stepping down, citing “stagnation” in the fight to preserve the world’s largest remaining tropical wilderness.

Deforestation in the Amazon had declined for three consecutive years until earlier this year when preliminary satellite data detected a spike.