Issue of Equity

17 December 2010

Nature Group Plc

("Nature" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Issue of Equity

Nature Group Plc (AIM: NGR), a provider of port reception facilities and waste water treatment solutions for the oil, marine and process industries, announces that, pursuant to the exercise of executive staff options, it has issued 125,000 new ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each. The exercise price of the options was 10 pence per share.

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will be effective and that dealings will commence on 22 December 2010.

In accordance with the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, we would like to notify the market that following the exercise of these options:

·; Nature Group's capital consists of 77,560,155 ordinary shares with voting rights;

·; Nature Group does not hold any ordinary shares in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Nature Group is 77,560,155.

The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Nature Group under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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