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How likely are wild animals to attack?

How likely are wild animals to attack?

How likely are wild animals to attack?Everyone would have seen a movie at one point with killer wolves or sharks or a creature that attacked someone just for the sake of attacking, but in reality, more people are killed each year from defective toasters than from...

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The most amazing Cockle recipe ever

The most amazing Cockle recipe ever

The most amazing Cockle recipe everFor those of you who like gathering shellfish, there’s nothing better than coming home with a big bag of fresh cockles. Fortunately, most people who go after shellfish mostly stick to gathering mussels as there are by far the most...

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Where to find wild Rabbits

Where to find wild Rabbits

Where to find wild Rabbits   For those of you who fancy a hunting trip or just want to do some photography, rabbits are one of the wild animals that you can always count on being close by, even if you never normally see any. Found across most of the world in one...

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How do Eskimos keep warm?

How do Eskimos keep warm?

How do Eskimos keep warm?   How do Eskimos keep warm living in the colder areas of the Arctic Circle, where the ground is permanently frozen solid and the average daily temperature is well below freezing? With conditions in the middle of winter often hitting...

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What do Amazon tribes eat?

What do Amazon tribes eat?

What do Amazon tribes eat?   When people think of Amazonian tribes, one thing seems to pop up constantly, and that’s cannibalism, although it has been well documented throughout tribes across the world, it's much rarer than people may think.   Tribes within...

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Medieval Mortar Recipe

Medieval Mortar Recipe

Medieval Mortar Recipe (A 600-year-old still-standing section of a castle wall, built using the method described below)   This Medieval Mortar Recipe has been made the same way for over 1,500 years, with evidence of it first appearing in Britain as early as the...

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The best place to forage in South Wales

The best place to forage in South Wales

The best place to forage in South WalesLlansteffanThe south of Wales has some amazing scenery and couldn’t make a better spot to do some foraging, with its large patches of wild garlic and Samphire-covered marshes, it offers a little bit of everything. The best place...

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How to gather Razor Clams

How to gather Razor Clams

How to gather Razor ClamsThe razor clam is one of the tastiest shellfish you can find around British waters and is also the one that seems to be gathered the least. The method of how to gather Razor Clams is a little different to the other shellfish you'll find,...

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How to catch shrimp in the UK

How to catch shrimp in the UK

How to catch shrimp in the UKCatching shrimp is probably one of the least popular beach foraging activities, well, right after limpet gathering I suppose, but nothing comes close to the satisfaction gained from taking a big bucket of shrimp and cooking it right there...

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How to make Hardtack

How to make Hardtack

How to make HardtackThroughout history, dozens of nations produced hardtack as their main staple for long periods of survival. It was a standard army and navy ration for nations across Europe and is recognized as being one of the best survival foods out there. It can...

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Crab Catching UK

Crab Catching UK

Crab Catching UKThere is only one type of crab that is worth catching for food around the UK, and that's the Brown Crab. There are a few other types that people eat, such as the smaller shore crab or the larger spider crabs, but these can be hard to gather, and...

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Arctic survival tips

Arctic survival tips

Arctic survival tipsThe Arctic is classed as anything that lies north of the circle that is 66° north of the equator. It includes seven countries which are Russia, Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden, the United States but only with Alaska, and Denmark but only with their...

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What to do if you get frostbite

What to do if you get frostbite

What to do if you get frostbite (A bad case of Frostbite on the fingers, this may look gruesome but the damage is only on the outer layers of skin so no fingers will be lost)   For anyone going into an environment of extreme cold, knowing what to do if you get...

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Pemmican recipe – The ultimate survival food

Pemmican recipe – The ultimate survival food

Pemmican recipe – The ultimate survival foodPemmican is widely recognized as the ultimate survival food and can safely last for years if kept in the right conditions. It was the number one trade item between the Native Americans and the settlers for over 100 years and...

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How to gather and cook Acorns

How to gather and cook Acorns

How to gather and cook AcornsThe Acorn is normally something most people consider to be nothing more than an annoying clean-up project, but learning how to gather and cook acorns used to be a common skill, and provided food for our ancestors for thousands of years and...

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How to find water in extremely cold climates

How to find water in extremely cold climates

How to find water in extremely cold climates   The trick isn't how to find water in extremely cold climates, but rather getting it into a liquid form without freezing to death in the process. One thing you should never do is eat snow or swallow pieces of ice...

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Can you survive in Antarctica?

Can you survive in Antarctica?

Can you survive in Antarctica?Antarctica is the 5th biggest continent on Earth and spans an area of 13.66 million km². It is covered in nothing but ice, snow, and rocks, making it the hardest continent to survive on, which is one of the reasons that nobody bothered to...

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Is it possible to survive on a desert island?

Is it possible to survive on a desert island?

Is it possible to survive on a desert island?There are many shows, movies, and books that have been based on the classic view of being stranded on a desert island. Images of people waking up on the beach after their ship wrecked and building a shelter are all too...

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Survival Food of the Past

Survival Food of the Past

Survival Food of the Past   Have you ever wondered what people during medieval times ate when they were on long journeys? or how hunter-gatherers from the stone age managed to survive the winter?, of course you have, so today we're going to look at survival food...

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How to find and identify flint

How to find and identify flint

How to find and identify flintFlint has been popular amongst hunter-gatherers since they first discovered it could be used to make fire. How to find and identify flint was one of the most important skills our ancestors had to learn, being utilized by ancient people...

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The best place to practise bushcraft in the UK

The best place to practise bushcraft in the UK

The best place to practise Bushcraft in the UKWithout a doubt the best single place to practise your bushcraft skills in the UK is Scotland. There's 2 main reasons for this, first of all it has the tallest mountains and the most remote wilderness, and the second...

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What did hunter gatherers eat?

What did hunter gatherers eat?

What did hunter-gatherers eat  Before talking about exactly what did hunter-gatherers eat it's important to know what one actually is. As the name suggests it is a person who lives by obtaining food through the methods of hunting animals and gathering wild food,...

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