Understanding how to use your surroundings to build shelter and secure food is paramount to being able to make it through a survival situation of SHTF moment.

Skills that apply in a desert island survival situation can also apply to any other survival situation as this video shows.

Being stranded on a desert island is probably not something any of us will ever experience beyond watching it in movies.

There are, however, many different skills that apply to a desert survival situation that also apply to being stranded in any tropical environment as well as cooler climates.

Understanding how to build skills that can apply in any situation is the key to being as prepared as possible, no matter what comes your way.