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
Knowledge and responsibility
Groundbreaking insight from graduate students at the University of Victoria…
Protection and conservation of gray wolves
Using minimally invasive methods to assess wolf behaviour and ecology,…
Biodiversity in BC, monitoring, and informing
Examining the genetics of whales and wolves, and using DNA…
A year of ship support around the coast
Film shoots, never-been-done-before research, youth trips, and more.
What it will take to recover the Southern Resident killer whales
Raincoast brought together 31 international scientists to create a roadmap…
Listening to protect
Our ongoing projects allow us to hear cetacean vocalizations in…