How to Train AI for Wildlife Detection | YOLO 2026

Are you still using outdated detection models?
Today, I’ll show you how to leverage CUDA and Ultralytics framework to train a high-accuracy model that can identify Buffalos, Elephants, Rhinos, and Zebras with incredible speed.

What You’ll Learn:

✅ Environment Setup: Configuring Conda with Python 3.11 and PyTorch
✅ Data Preparation: Setting up your config.yaml for the African Wildlife dataset.
✅ Training: Fine-tuning the yolo26m.pt model for 200 epochs.
✅ Inference: Testing your trained weights on real-world images..

Download the code for the tutorial here : https://eranfeit.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy/e9b5e9ab-d592-4ab6-aa10-cb2d876e9f73 or here : https://ko-fi.com/s/b4e11b39ed
Link to the full post and code here : https://eranfeit.net/train-yolo-for-african-wildlife-detection/
Link to the post and code for Medium users : https://medium.com/object-detection-tutorials/how-i-trained-a-custom-yolo-model-to-spot-african-wildlife-9bc70106ab58

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ recommended courses and books ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
🚀 Want to get started with Computer Vision or take your skills to the next level ?

Great Interactive Course : "Deep Learning for Images with PyTorch" here : https://datacamp.pxf.io/zxWxnm

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
00:00 Introduction and Demo
02:31 Installation
05:21 Train the model
11:34 Test the model

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Credits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Music by Vincent Rubinetti
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