Rhinoceroses are being poached at a rate of two or three a week in Africa and Asia. Which type of diversity is being lost as the population of rhinoceroses becomes very small?

As the rhinoceros population becomes very small, it contains fewer individuals and is more likely to lose variation in its inherited traits. That variation within a species is genetic diversity, so the answer is genetic diversity. Species diversity concerns the variety of species in an area, while ecosystem diversity concerns the variety of habitats or ecosystems.

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