Chris Genovali
Executive Director
As Executive Director of Raincoast for over two decades, Chris Genovali leads Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s programs to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of coastal British Columbia. Chris received a Conservation Leadership Award in 2015 from the Wilburforce Foundation.
He is a prolific writer, with articles, op-eds and features on Canadian wildlife, habitat and forest conservation issues widely published in Canada and internationally, including the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Seattle PI and Guardian UK. He was a contributor to Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground published in 2015, and Wild Foresting: Practicing Nature’s Wisdom published in 2008. Chris has also appeared as a spokesperson on various radio and television outlets such as CBC’s ‘As It Happens’, CBC ‘Newsworld’, US National Public Radio, Global TV, CTV, CKNW, BBC radio and Public Radio International.

Recent articles
Canada’s Species at Risk Act is, itself, at risk
Action alert: It’s not just endangered species being undermined by…
Study: Toxic hydrocarbon hotspots in BC coastal sediments, threatening Southern Resident killer whales and Chinook salmon
Burgeoning marine traffic to bring more toxic hydrocarbons to killer…
Give killer whales a voice…for years to come
What it takes to power conservation that lasts.
To restore salmon habitat, one must act like the beaver
Rebuilding riparian habitat, one stick at a time.
Keeping watch on the Salish Sea
Janine McNeilly tells us how she fell in love with…
No trust in the Trust
The Islands Trust draft Trust Policy Statement has veered off…






