Significant progress in the development of an effective management system for protected areas has been made since 2008 in Sarajevo Canton. The cantonal Ministry of Physical Planning and Environmental Protection has adopted a new system of management for three established protected areas: natural monuments Vrelo Bosne and Scacovac and protected landscape Biambare. All three protected areas were transferred for management purposes to the newly established Directorate for Protected Areas (a public institution under the control of the Ministry), currently with 22 staff, to be expanded to 29.