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
Do belugas have bromances?
Belugas live in far more complex and culturally rich societies…
A year in review: What was Achiever up to in 2025?
Watch our research vessel travel around the BC coast using…
Long-term research on long-lived species takes a village
We’re listening to protect killer whales, and we need your…
What does a wolf eat in a year?
What does a wolf eat over the course of a…
Uncovering the causes of degraded fish and whale habitat
These are not just stories about chemistry, numbers, and water…
Communities for Coastal Douglas-fir habitats
Restoring and stewarding the coastal forest ecosystems we call home.