To get easy control? To save remaining unrenewable energy? To get more assets & power?
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Maybe they are just bored.
They have been depopulating for 1000s of years.
The ones I know about from Britain
The Normans cleared the English Countryside making it a capital offence to even eat rabbits from "Royal Lands" (anywhere called "Something Chase" e.g. Cannock Chase - it's where blackface in English Morris dancing comes from - the poacher.
Scottish Clearances
Deportations to Australia and Virginia - people like to think that as "criminals" but really it was the urban poor. Theft and violence was met with execution, 10,000 names are in the deportation records in the Galleries of Justice Museum, Nottingham. With crimes such as "gossiping".