Wilderness survival

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Techniques and skills used to survive in isolated and hostile environments with limited resources and no support.

Basic First Aid: Learn how to administer basic first aid for minor injuries, such as cuts, scrapes, and burns.
Fire Building: Learn how to build and maintain a fire to keep warm, dry clothes, cook food, and signal for rescue.
Shelter Building: Learn how to build a shelter using natural materials, such as branches and leaves, to protect from elements and maintain body temperature.
Navigation: Learn how to use a map, compass, and landmarks to find your way around the wilderness and avoid getting lost.
Water Purification: Learn how to purify water in the outdoors to prevent dehydration and illness.
Edible Plants and Wildlife: Learn how to identify edible plants and wildlife in your area to provide food in emergency situations.
Survival Psychology: Learn how to maintain a positive attitude and mental toughness in the face of adversity.
Emergency Signaling: Learn how to signal for rescue using a variety of methods, such as mirrors, smoke, and sound.
Rope and Knots: Learn how to tie basic knots and use ropes for shelter building, climbing, and other tasks.
Weather Awareness: Learn how to predict weather patterns to avoid dangerous conditions and stay safe.
Equipment Maintenance: Learn how to properly care for and maintain outdoor equipment, such as tents, stoves, and sleeping bags.
Emergency Preparedness: Learn how to pack and prepare for emergency situations with a survival kit and appropriate clothing.
Hunting and Trapping: Learn how to hunt and trap game for food in a survival situation.
Fishing: Learn how to fish using natural bait and artificial lures to provide food in the outdoors.
Wildfire Safety: Learn how to prevent and respond to wildfires in the outdoors.
Bushcraft: The art of surviving in the wilderness by using natural resources to make tools, shelters and find food and water.
Hunting: The practice of pursuing and killing wild animals for food or sport.
Fishing: The activity of catching fish with a rod, reel, and bait.
Trapping: The act of setting traps to catch wild animals for food or fur.
Foraging: Finding and collecting edible plants, berries, and nuts in the wild.
Shelter Building: The ability to construct a shelter using natural resources such as sticks, leaves, and branches.
Fire Starting: The skill of creating fire without matches or a lighter, using natural materials such as flint and steel.
Navigation: The ability to find one's way in the wilderness without the use of a compass or GPS.
Water Collection: The practice of finding and collecting water from natural sources such as streams, rivers, and lakes.
First Aid: The knowledge and ability to treat injuries and medical emergencies in the wilderness.
Knot-Tying: The skill of tying various knots in order to construct tools, shelters or for rescue purposes.
Survival Cooking: Knowing how to cook and prepare food in the wilderness using limited resources.
Animal Tracking: The ability to identify and track animals in the wilderness.
Wilderness Medicine: The understanding and practice of medicine in a wilderness setting, often in the absence of conventional medical care.
Search and Rescue: The practice of locating and rescuing lost or injured hikers or campers in the wilderness.
"Survival skills are techniques used to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment."
"These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life, including water, food, and shelter."
"Survival skills are basic ideas and abilities that ancient people invented and passed down for thousands of years."
"Survival skills are often associated with surviving in a disaster situation."
"Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially to handle emergencies."
"Individuals who practice survival skills as a type of outdoor recreation or hobby may describe themselves as survivalists."
"People living off-grid lifestyles such as homesteaders."
"Bushcraft and primitive living are most often self-implemented but require many of the same skills."
"Criminals, such as fugitives, draft dodgers, poachers, serial killers, illegal immigrants, escaped prisoners, organized criminals, and terrorists."
"The United States Armed Forces has a training program called SERE."
"Military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, intelligence personnel, and private military contractors."
"In which military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, intelligence personnel, and private military contractors are taught survival skills and techniques for evading capture and escaping from captivity if they need to survive and hideout in wilderness areas while avoiding capture by enemy combatants."
"These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life, including water, food, and shelter."
"Survival skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over time."
"Both park rangers and conservation officers are taught survival skills to help them find missing persons."
"In which military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, intelligence personnel, and private military contractors are taught survival skills and techniques for evading capture and escaping from captivity if they need to survive and hideout in wilderness areas while avoiding capture by enemy combatants."
"Both park rangers and conservation officers are taught survival skills."
"Criminals, such as fugitives, draft dodgers, poachers, serial killers, illegal immigrants, escaped prisoners, organized criminals, and terrorists."
"Especially to handle emergencies."
"People living off-grid lifestyles such as homesteaders."