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Janine Dupuis walks her two dogs through Komoka Provincial Park every weekend.

The Poplar Hill resident says she was there recently when a fellow dog-walker warned her about beaver traps set in the ponds in the sprawling park on London’s western border.

Worried someone’s dog could be injured or killed by the traps. Dupuis is questioning why the Ministry of Natural Resources is using the fatal devices to kill beavers in their natural habitat.

“It’s barbaric,” she said. “They’re not telling anybody about it.”

The ministry hired a contractor in February to trap nuisance beavers — the first time it’s been done at the park — after the rodents kept damming the area, causing high water levels that affected the installation of a municipal sewage and drainage system, spokesperson Jolanta Kowalski said Tuesday.

“Twelve traps were set in the water, along the edge of the pond…