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
Notes from the Shipyard
The alarm goes off at 6am. It’s still dark and…
New National Geographic Special “Last Stand of the Great Bear”
Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on PBS…
The Salmon Bears
The sound of the grizzly’s jaws crunching down on the…
Sea Lice Loot
White caps licking my gumboots, I make the leap from…
Coring for Answers
When I saw Owikeeno Lake from the plane my jaw…
A Little Wolf Mystery, Part I
I needed a renewal. Spring had sprung some time ago…



