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
“Smile, you’re on a wildlife camera!” on Haíɫzaqv territory
Working to better understand how variables such as forest age…
Chinook salmon are getting smaller – and one explanation is uncomfortably familiar
Honey, I shrunk the Chinook.
The need for renewed federal commitment to The Wild Salmon Policy
New paper evaluates both the enduring relevance of the Wild…
30 years in the Great Bear Rainforest
How Haíɫzaqv principles and ongoing research will guide our future.
Canada’s Policy for the Conservation of Wild Pacific Salmon
A framework for safeguarding salmon diversity and resilience.
A killer future
By restoring Chinook salmon, reducing underwater noise, and stopping pollution…