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.

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Notes from the Shipyard

The alarm goes off at 6am. It’s still dark and…

A white bear holds a salmon in their mouth while walking through a shallow river in the Great Bear Rainforest.

New National Geographic Special “Last Stand of the Great Bear”

Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on PBS…

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The Salmon Bears

The sound of the grizzly’s jaws crunching down on the…

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Sea Lice Loot

White caps licking my gumboots, I make the leap from…

A woman in a black jacket standing in a wooded area.

Coring for Answers

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A man (Chris) holds a partially eaten fish in the forest.

A Little Wolf Mystery, Part I

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