At Wal-Mart, we know that being an efficient and profitable business and being a good steward of the environment go hand in hand. As part of our continued commitment to protect our nation’s natural resources, in 2005, NFWF and Wal-Mart launched the Acres for America program with the goal to permanently protect one acre of important wildlife habitat in the United States for every acre of land developed by Wal-Mart. The program was designed to completely offset the company’s corporate land footprint. Pledging $35 million over 10 years to the project, Wal-Mart committed to protecting enough land to account for its stores’ current land-use and development through 2015.