Some environmental experts pointed out that Kilimanjaro's snow top may completely melt and disappear in 10 years, when Kilimanjaro's unique "equatorial snow mountain" spectacle will bid farewell to mankind. Therefore, it is also called doomsday tourism.
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Kilimanjaro is rich in water resources because it blocks the humid monsoon in the Indian Ocean. The combination of water flow and temperature conditions makes Kilimanjaro form several different vertical vegetation zones from top to bottom. Above 4000 meters are alpine cold desert zone and snow glacier zone, and below about 1000 meters are alpine meadow zone, temperate forest zone, subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest zone and equatorial rain forest zone.
According to the vertical distribution law of mountain climate, the basic climate of Kilimanjaro, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, is from tropical rain forest climate to ice sheet climate respectively. This landscape includes basic vegetation from equator to poles. Because it is located near the equator, the vegetation starts from the tropical rain forest. Climate distribution belongs to non-zonal distribution. Therefore, Kilimanjaro is easy to form topographic precipitation and bring abundant precipitation to it.