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
We are back with the fourth edition of the Raincoast Ocean Science Awards!
An evening to celebrate coastal conservation at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Canada has the policy tools to protect Pacific salmon. Why aren’t they working?
A new peer-reviewed perspective examines why decades of ambitious conservation…
When turkey vultures attack
How a bird with incredible aim almost ended a day…
Wolves role in healthy ecosystems
Protecting wolves protects the ecological processes that sustain life across…
Prime Minister Carney recently asked what Canadians ‘are for’
Here’s our answer.
Raincoast scientist gives testimony to Government of Canada on the threat posed by plastic pollution
This month, a standing committee of the House of Commons…