In the wake of a report that links children’s picture books by U.S. Publishers that are printed in China to timber harvested in the rainforests of Indonesia, San Francisco-based ENGO Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has released a list of 25 children’s books that it considers “rainforest-safe.” All of the books on RAN’s list are printed on post-consumer recycled, FSC-certified or recycled paper. According to RAN, this provides parents with the assurance of knowing that their children’s books don’t contribute to the destruction of endangered rainforests.   RAN’s report, Turning the Page on Rainforest Destruction: Children’s Books and the Future of Indonesia’s Rainforests, documented clear links between children’s picture books printed overseas and the destruction of rainforests, including peatland rainforests, and their conversion to fast-growing monoculture tree plantations. The report found that a majority of the top-ten U.S. children’s publishers had released at least one children’s book that tested positive for paper fiber linked to the Indonesian fiber. Ironically, some of the books in question described the benefits of rainforest conservation. “With our rainforest-safe book list, parents and kids won’t have to choose between loving books and loving rainforests,” said RAN’s Lafcadio Cortesi. According to RAN, the degradation and destruction of tropical rainforests is responsible for fifteen percent of all annual greenhouse emissions worldwide. In addition, RAN says, the carbon emissions resulting from Indonesia’s rapid deforestation account for up to five percent of global emissions: more than the combined emissions from all the cars, planes, trucks, buses and trains in United States, making Indonesia the third-largest global greenhouse gas emitter, behind only the U.S. and China.