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
Stable isotopic niche predicts fitness of prey in a wolf-deer system
Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet and T.E. Reimchen. 2007. Stable isotopic…
Salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest
This popular summary gives an overview of the importance of…
The influence of natural landscape fragmentation and resource availability on connectivity and distribution of marine gray wolf (Canis lupus) populations on the Central Coast, British Columbia, Canada
Paquet, P.C., S.M. Alexander, P.L. Swan, and C.T. Darimont. 2006.…
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The importance of small streams on British Columbia’s central and north coasts (2005)
This report describes the role of small salmon runs in…
Early ontogenetic diet of wolves
Bryan, J., CT Darimont, T.E. Reimchen, and P.C. Paquet. 2006.…
A Rainforest Awakening
by Chris Genovali January 2007 From Victoria, B.C. Last fall, Raincoast’s…