The park already has an archery range, a campground, protected grasslands, a private sports complex and a community garden.
It is recommended to protect grassland more stringently on ecologically sensitive sites and also to strengthen legal standards of nature and water protection, but with regard to the lost economic values, not to set grassland conservation as an area-wide imperative.
Though the New Farm Bill includes measures to protect grassland, it excludes key states that have seen significant crop conversion.
They have taken a pragmatic but earnest look at protecting grasslands and birds; at the best recommendations for handling fluids and protecting water; and verified for themselves the characteristics of the most secure wellpads.
Some 98% of English meadows have been lost to intensive farming, but the rate of loss nearly doubled after the EU said it wanted to protect grasslands.
A government spokesman said: "We have always been clear that the new greening rules introduced by the European Commission (and supposed to protect grasslands) will not deliver significant benefits for nature.
To protect grasslands and maintain the ecosystem services they provide, many European countries have been offering agri-environment measures aimed at maintaining extensive grazing by cattle, sheep or goats.
Protecting grasslands in the lower reaches of the Heihe River basin from degradation and rehabilitating the dried-up terminal lake would do much to reduce æolian losses in the region.
Airports and historic parks, which only cover 2% of land in Berlin, contain one-third of all protected dry grasslands.
