[3] The park includes the whole of Mount Kilimanjaro above the tree line and the surrounding montane forest belt above 1,820 metres (5,970 ft).

[9] In the early twentieth century, Mount Kilimanjaro and the adjacent forests were declared a game reserve by the German colonial government.

[1] The park was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1987.

Above the timberline, the Kilimanjaro tree hyrax, the grey duiker, and rodents are frequently encountered.

[3] In the montane forests, blue monkeys, eastern black and white colobuses, bushbabies, and leopards can be found.