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. 

chris [at] raincoast [dot] org

Chris Genovali, executive director of Raincoast Conservation Foundation.

Recent articles

dummy-img

Yeo Island Wolf Home Site Recommendations

A proposed solution to the potential conflict between the home…

A group of brown bears standing on rocks.

Field Journal, August 2001

Bella Bella, 2001 We all wore waders, we split up…

Partial close up of a map from the coastal wolves report of 2000 pilot study.

The Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) of British Columbia’s Coastal Rainforests

Herein, we present the most comprehensive scientific report to date…

dummy-img

Conservation Areas Design for the Central Coast of British Columbia (2000) Executive Summary only

Richard Jeo, M.A. Sanjayan, Dennis Sizemore Over the last century,…

Do you get us?

Get more conservation news and stories from us.