The 59-year-old from Primorsky, St Petersburg in Russia is

"There is a lot of things we don’t know about our natural habitats and species."But what it does show is that species and habitats are declining - that is a real concern in the report."

She said the commission was looking to "fill the gaps", along with other environmental organisations."There is a big role the government can play, businesses can play and there’s a really big role the general public can play as well," added Ms Jennings.Ecologist Charlotte Burgoine said the report highlighted a lack of data for the marine environment.

She said it was "difficult to survey" and she wanted to encourage more data collection in this area.“Also, species groups like fungi and lichen are quite a specialist interest. They are quite hard to identify, so that is something we could do with working on," said Ms Burgoine.

"We are going to be working on a baseline data collection programme. We are going to look at the data gaps, try and figure out how we can go about addressing those."

She said they needed to gather "consistent scientific long-term data" to keep projects running and to analyse trends.over whether the money to pay Mauritius for leasing back the military base would come out of the increase in defence spending announced on Tuesday.

Pressed over the issue by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir refused to say directly whether this would be the case.He told the Commons the hike in defence spending was "for our capability on defence and security in Europe".

The PM added that the Chagos deal was "extremely important for our security" and the details and cost would be put before MPs when finalised.The UK government has never confirmed the estimated cost of payments under the deal, but there have been reports of a figure ranging from £9bn to £18bn.