The association has set itself the task of informing and sensitizing companies, organizations and private individuals about the consequences of global raw material extraction. The association calls on companies, investors and governments to take responsibility: through improved methods, sustainable extraction processes and restricted resource use. The goal is to stop the exploitation, preserve biodiversity and ensure a future for humans and animals. The association strives to pass on the knowledge acquired through research institutions and trained specialists, trainers, further education, seminars, public relations and the members' own experiences to its members and interested non-members. Various programs are to be developed that can be applied in practice, including economic aid in emergency situations. Cooperation with international organizations that also strive for a conscious, healthy and safety-oriented way of life and work is desired. The association's goal is to support internationally through suitable practical measures of all kinds. The association opens doors, builds bridges and removes obstacles, particularly through public relations and lobbying, education and counseling, but also through individual, personal counseling and promotion. Within the framework of its purpose, the association can establish institutions nationally and internationally, participate in other profit or non-profit institutions nationally and internationally, engage auxiliary persons, found organizations or support them through donations. This is done exclusively silently and anonymously.