Issue of Equity

16 December 2010

NATURE GROUP PLC

("Nature Group" or the "Company")

Issue of Equity

The Board of Nature Group, the AIM quoted provider of port reception facilities and waste treatment solutions for the oil, marine and process industries, is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement on 13 December 2010 of the Acquisition of International Slop Disposal (I.S.D.) B.V. ("ISD") and Ecoscrub Solutions B.V. ("Ecoscrub") and a shareplacing, 38,000,000 new Ordinary Shares ("New Ordinary Shares") have now been issued.

Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will be effective and that dealings in the new Ordinary Shares will take place on 21 December 2010.

The New Ordinary Shares will rank in full for all dividends and otherwise pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares from the date of Admissionsave that the New Ordinary Shares being issued to Portinvest as consideration for the acquisition of ISD and Ecoscrub will not participate in any dividend or distribution declared in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 2010.

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