REUTERS.: Amazon deforestation drops sharply: Brazil govt. Bsb, Agosto, 2007. You can reed the article here – http://reut.rs/e0QPQCArticle produced by Reuters, in August 2007, says that the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil fell by about a third in the 12 months through July to the lowest rate in at least seven years.
Hydropower Construction and Deforestation: Linking Forest Cover to Changes in Water Balance
In early August 2016 the environmental license to build the largest of these dams, the São Luiz do Tapajos, was denied. In addition to future expansion of hydropower throughout the Amazon, 43 dams are still planned for the Tapajos River Basin.