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
Mapping the Semá:th X̱ó:tsa (Sumas Lake) region following the BC floods of 2021
The catastrophic floods of late 2021 in southern British Columbia (Canada) and neighbouring Washington State (USA) destroyed homes, farms and businesses, with excess water spilling debris, animal carcasses, and diesel…
The inaugural 2023 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards
Last Thursday, Raincoast hosted the Raincoast Ocean Science Awards and celebrated outstanding achievements by individuals and groups striving to protect lands, waters, and wildlife through science, Indigenous Knowledge systems, and…
Our new whale livestream at a Southern Resident killer whale sanctuary zone
We just launched our Raincoast Whale Livestream which will be streaming both video and underwater soundscape from a hydrophone and webcam on North Pender Island. The monitoring site is in…
The Islands Trust is failing to protect water and forests
At the Islands Trust Council’s most recent meeting in September 2023, Local Trustees reached consensus that their legally mandated object to “preserve and protect the Trust Area and its unique…