South Africa ? South Africa’s environment minister announced long-awaited restrictions on hunting Tuesday, declaring he was sickened by wealthy tourists shooting tame lions from the back of a truck and felling rhinos with a bow and arrow.

Dismissing threats of legal action by the hunting industry, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk said the new law would ban “canned” hunting of big predators and rhinos in small enclosures that offer them no means of escape.

“Hunting should be about fair chase … testing the wits of a hunter against that of the animal,” he told a press conference. “Over the years that got eroded and now we are trying to re-establish that principal.”

The new law, which takes effect June 1, bans the hunting of animals that have been tranquilized. It outlaws bows and arrows for big predators and thick skinned animals like rhinos – one of the practices singled out by Van Schalkwyk as particularly appalling. And it bans the use of vehicles to chase the animal until it is too tired and terrified to flee for its life.