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This paper documents changes to land cover in Darfur as an indicator of population displacement. It uses two independent satellite imagery products to monitor changes from 1998 through 2007 in the regions most impacted by the genocide. The author finds a steadily increasing return of natural vegetation coverage and vigor in formerly agrarian and livestock grazing ranges since 2004. He demonstrates that this environmental recovery is not a result of increased rainfall, but of the abrupt change in land use directly related to the systematic violence committed by Sudanese government and militia forces against the peoples of Darfur.