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
How to measure a tree
Measuring height, diameter, and crown spread of a big tree…
We’re bringing the environmental community together with a new event: The Confluence
Join us for this Friday night mixer designed to spark…
National plastic pollution efforts continue
Good things happen when experts from different sectors work together.
Embracing your inner wolf and field researcher
Events and presentations to get you thinking about wildlife and…
Step into a creek walker’s boots
A first-person account of monitoring the salmon run in Haíɫzaqv…
Thermal refuges in the Coldwater River
How salmon are coping in one of BC’s hottest rivers.