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
Wolf home range and travel distances
Range size varies widely depending on factors like prey density,…
The social and cultural lives of belugas
Exploring beluga sociality and culture through the lens of behaviourial…
Effects of boat- and land-based ecotourism on bears
This body of evidence will help guide ecotourism and conservation.
New scientific review highlights the complex and culturally rich social lives of belugas
Belugas live in multilevel, dynamic societies shaped by kinship, sex,…
The grizzly hunt is no way to solve conflict between humans and bears
Grizzlies involved in conflict and those killed by hunters are…
The utility of science
Grizzlies don’t go looking for conflict. And conflict cannot be…