Most of the province's market stalls trading in wildlife have been vacated since Guangdong passed a law against consuming the meat of animals that are "State-protected, prone to transmit diseases or not checked by the quarantine authority", reports China News Service.

Aside from chicken, duck and goose, the remaining stalls sell only farm-raised partridge, ostrich, snake and other creatures.

But restaurants offering wildlife cuisine can still be found, and taxi drivers can usually inform their customers of the locations.

"It will be a long, hard to process to get the entire public to stop eating wildlife," admitted Wang Xudong, an official with the Guangdong Provincial Congress.

The congress passed the Guangdong Patriotic Sanitation Work Regulations, which contain the clause prohibiting consumption of wildlife, on July 25.

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