Deforestation In Brazil's Amazon Skyrockets After Years Of Decline

KA'APOR INDIGENOUS RESERVE, BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 23: A member of the Ka'apor indigenous tribe inspects a rifle and machete confiscated from a man suspected of setting an illegal fire for logging on their protected land on November 23, 2014 in the Ka'apor Indigenous Reserve in Maranhao State, Brazil. Some members of the tribe have taken on illegal logging in parts of the reserve by forming patrols and confronting and expelling illegal loggers. The non-governmental group Imazon recently warned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon skyrocketed 450 percent in October of this year compared with the same month last year. The United Nations climate change conference begins December 1 in neighboring Peru. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)